Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from January 2006

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from January 2006

Client-centered therapy.
January 1, 2006... Sixty years ago, the psychologist Carl Rogers introduced a new approach to psychotherapy, designed as a contrast to the behavioral and psychoanalytic theories dominant at the time. Unlike behavior therapy, the Rogers approach does not emphasize...

The duty to protect.
January 1, 2006... In 1974, a decision of the California Supreme Court shocked mental health professionals by suggesting that they had an apparently indefinite duty to protect third persons from injury inflicted by their patients or clients. But the results of...

Update on St. John's wort.
January 1, 2006... June is the legendary birthday of John the Baptist and the month in which St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) blooms. Extracts from its flowers have been used for centuries as a painkiller, sedative, and treatment for anxiety and depression....

A comparison of antipsychotic drugs.
January 1, 2006... The first phase of a large clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health has come to the surprising conclusion that the new generation of antipsychotic drugs introduced after 1985 is not more effective or safer than older,...

Questions & Answers: What is vagus nerve stimulation?
January 1, 2006... Q. What is vagus nerve stimulation? A. The word "vagus" means "wandering," which is what the long vagus nerve does. It runs from the base of the brain through the neck and chest to the stomach, conveying visceral and taste sensations to...