Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from June 2002

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from June 2002

Hypnosis: Theory and Application Part II.
June 1, 2002... In Part I we described the hypnotic experience and discussed theories about its nature. This month we cover the results of brain imaging studies and the therapeutic uses of hypnosis. Recent research has shown that brain activity often...

Helping Children Affected by Trauma and Death.
June 1, 2002... BY ROBIN F. GOODMAN, PH.D., ELISSA J. BROWN, PH.D., AND MARY COURTNEY, PH.D. The images are all too familiar - planes crashing, buildings collapsing, dark smoke pluming, people running. For many in the New York metropolitan area, it was a...

Managing and Averting Anger.
June 1, 2002... In recent years Americans have been hearing a great deal about rage - road rage, hockey rage, even golf rage. The incidents that make headlines involve some of those with the worst problems, but many others could also benefit by learning to...

Growing Older, Feeling Better.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A close study of the daily emotional ups and downs of 184 adults indicates that the old generally feel better about life than the young - or at least feel bad less often. The subjects of the study, who ranged in age from 18 to 94, were...

Placebos in the Brain.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The symptoms of medical and psychiatric patients, as everyone knows, often improve when they are not getting a specific treatment but only, say, an inert pill or some benevolent attention from a healer. For want of a better understanding, this...

Eating Disorders and Culture.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Eating disorders in women are often blamed on social pressures that result from the standards of female beauty imposed by modern industrial society or Western culture. A recent study of Iranian-born women living in Teheran (Iran) and Los...