Is Chronic Pain and Depression destroying your life?
Posted by Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. on Aug 21st 2008
"Chronic pain is inherently, chronically stressful. It interferes with our day to day functioning and our relationships. What results? Those with chronic pain may not receive the social support they need, not experiencing empathy or love. This can wear anyone down to the point where the risk for depression gets higher and higher. If we can’t get rid of it, what can we do? We need to change our relationship to pain in order to gain relief! " More...

An Interview with Fern Cohen, Ph.D. on whether Psychoanalysis is Dead
Posted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. on Aug 18th 2008
"In this episode of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys speaks with Psychologist and Psychoanalyst Fern Cohen, Ph.D. on the provocative theme, "Is Psychoanalysis Dead?". In this context, Psychoanalysis refers to the version of psychoanalysis developed by Dr. Freud (e.g., the one with the couch) and not to modern psychodynamic versions related to that original therapy. Not surprisingly, Dr. Cohen doesn't think that psychoanalysis is dead at all. While acknowledging that this form of therapy is on the decline in terms of practitioners, she points out various ways that it continues to be vital and important." More...

TIME OUT! 2 Things you can practice today to stave off anxiety and depression in this hectic time.
Posted by Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. on Aug 18th 2008
"We have world anxiety from all the wars going on and the continuing stories on issues with global warming. Many of us have food anxiety, from a bitter inner battle with our race of who-can-be-thinnest, aspiring to look like the physically shrinking celebutantes, to our growing national obesity epidemic. We have economic anxiety with dwindling paychecks and rising gas prices with our current recession. All of this often feeds into sleep anxiety leaving an increasing number of people popping pills to fall asleep without adequate information on the addictive properties of many of these agents. None of this mentions generational anxiety with the boomer generation crunched between taking care of ailing parents to financially supporting their recent college grads at home because they can’t find jobs." More...

Is work stress threatening your sanity? This approach will help you make a change now!
Posted by Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. on Aug 14th 2008
"Technological gadgets such as cell phones, email, instant and text messaging make us all available 24/7 to a mad rush of daily activity and demands. Seeing this all-too-often in my own practice, it just doesn’t seem like our brains are supposed to be able to handle this pace of life and bombardment of information, leaving us susceptible to self-judgment, impatience, frustration, worry, and panic. Does it come as a surprise that and increasing number of adults are arriving at therapists doors with A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) symptoms? Our culture, with all the multi-tasking, encourages it." More...

The Problem of Sexual Fetishes and Marriage
Posted by Allan N. Schwartz, LCSW, PhD on Aug 13th 2008
"According to the DSM 1V a festish is defined as a sexual attraction or response to a non living object. Examples of fetishes are such things as a male having a sexual response to women's shoes, stockings, panties, bras and other types of similar objects. For a variety of complex reasons, the male individual experiences sexual conflicts of a type that his sexual urges and needs to masturbate can only be aroused when the objects are present. " More...