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New York Times on Drug Therapies for Depression
The New York Times Retro Report looks back at Prozac, the first successfully marketed medication of the class of medications known as SSRI's used to treat depression.Check out the 9-minute video and then let's talk.I discuss depression and the various therapies used to treat it almost everyday. Some of my patients take medications to treat depression, many have in the past, some struggle and…
Sep 26, 2014
If I kicked you in the shin...
...your shin would hurt. And you'd probably be pissed at me. You might even curse. Or kick me back.And if that happened, it wouldn't make much sense to say that you had:A shin problemA pain problemAn anger problem orA kicking problemYou'd have--well, you'd have a some-jerk-just-kicked-me-in-the-shin problem. Which would be a real problem. There's a metaphor here, of course. A therapy metaphor. It…
Apr 02, 2014
I didn't say we wouldn't be talking about your mother in therapy
We have something of a reputation here at TriBeCa Therapy for being therapists who aren't overly invested in the psychoanalytic method of excavating the past. It's accurate, and it's a reputation that's been well earned on our part.We take exception to two corresponding assumptions underlying the dominance so often placed on the past that many therapists make:That understanding the…
Mar 18, 2014
What getting rid of mold can teach us about depression, anxiety, therapy and growth
There's a lot to be learned about attacking sadness and anxiety in therapy and in life from taking a look at the ecosystem of mold. Really.Imagine the following: You've moved into that great NYC apartment only to discover, just after hanging your newly-unpacked soft, white towels, that behind the bathroom door is a sprawling colony of mold. You could grab a bottle of the most toxic,…
Nov 05, 2013
Many shapes of trauma, many forms of pain
I was reminded this afternoon that there is still work to be done, in the media and in our therapy offices, to remind one another (and make the case) that trauma (and its cousin, pain) can take many forms.PTSD, the diagnostic label under which most trauma is captured, was historically a diagnosis most commonly given to men, in particular soldiers returning home after experiencing or witnessing…
Nov 04, 2013
You can't work on the PTSD until the TS is P
I started graduate school in New York City, studying to become a therapist, just a few days before September 11th, 2001. Like a lot of New Yorkers, that day included a long walk home. After connecting with my fellow therapists-to-be, some of us turned around and headed back downtown to see about volunteering our help. We were all in shock and, like so many, overwhelmed with a desire to be…
Oct 14, 2013Finding A Therapist: A radio interview with Lite FM NYC
It was a lot of fun doing an interview last week on Finding A Therapist with Nina Del Rio, who is the host of Lite FM NYC's "Get Connected." One of the things we discussed was that the challenge of finding a good therapist in NYC is compounded be there being so many choices of therapists. We talked about what it means to see beyond the psychoanalytic options (of which there are so many in NYC)…
Mar 27, 2013"Trust me, I'm a psychologist"
Mind Hacks, a psychology and neuroscience blog, posted a piece called Trust me, I'm a brain scan. They report on a study (a meta-study, actually—a study of studies) that found that, when the results of a particular piece of research are presented alongside a picture of a brain scan, readers were considerably more likely to find the results credible as compared with those not presented with such a…
Dec 06, 2012Wanting more from your therapy (and your life)
Do you have a wanting problem?. I think you might. It's pandemic.A question of what's possible from therapy. So, so many of the people I work with at my NYC therapy practice set deep, broad limits on what they imagine they'll be able to accomplish, in therapy and in life. Some examples:"Anxiety is just a part of my life, and I know I'll have to live with a lot of it, for a long time.""I don't…
Dec 03, 2012I hate therapy (and don't even get me started on psychotherapy)
Ok, I hate the word therapy. Or, more to the point, I hate the word therapy as a word to describe what I do.How come?. I hadn't looked up therapy until just this moment, but it's always smelled of illness to me. When I hear "therapy" I think less about the coming together of two or more people than I do of sickness and disorder. I think of words like chemotherapy and phrases like intensive…
Nov 29, 2012How to get good help from mediocre therapy
If you live in NYC, finding a therapist is easy. Finding a good therapist in New York is a bit trickier.Perhaps you're a New Yorker who feels like he or she really needs to find a therapist who's in-network with your insurance plan (I don't recommend it, but not everyone follows that advice). Maybe you don't have insurance and have found poor low-fee or sliding-scale options. Maybe you don't live…
Nov 19, 2012Stop listening
Wherever I wander in New York City, people make a lot of assumptions about me as a therapist. People figure I'm psychoanalyzing them (I'm not--I don't even do that in the therapy room). They wonder how I can "handle listening to people's problems all day" and they nearly universally figure I must be a good listener.Maybe I am a good listener. Okay, I am; any therapist should be. But the…
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