“Think positive” is one of those adages that comes in and out of favor in the therapy room and beyond on a roughly 20-year cycle. We’re coming down from the zenith of another wave on that curve, it seems, and the New York Times is ready, as always, to chronicle the ebb. A focus onRead more
The end of psychology? So says the Onion (Or: Because science…)
Like the best satire, this piece from the Onion lends itself to at least a few interpretations. The mock headline reads, “Psychology Comes To Halt As Weary Researchers Say The Mind Cannot Possibly Study Itself.” Perhaps it’s a critique of a critique of Cartesian dualism (and therefore a defense of psychology) or perhaps the OnionRead more
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 medicationsRead more
Rain falls down
I’m given gifts of stories and anecdotes in my NYC therapy practice that I can’t help but share (with appropriate anonymity for the therapy patient, of course). Being a therapist in Lower Manhattan, as you might imagine, the stories are often from the world of finance. This one of a business professor–a successful New YorkRead more
Q: What do you say to someone who repeatedly treats you poorly?
A: Nothing. You say nothing. You pack your things and head for the door. That is all.
What to do when you’re in (emotional) pain. (Hint: Act like a baby!)
I don’t turn off my awareness of emotional pain when I leave the therapy office. Here in New York we see people expressing their troubles on the street or on the subway (or on the internet) in all sorts of ways. For most New Yorkers, overhearing someone screaming and yelling on the A train isRead more
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 problem A pain problem An anger problem or A kicking problem You’d have–well, you’d have a some-jerk-just-kicked-me-in-the-shin problem. Which wouldRead more
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 onRead more
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 sprawlingRead more
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 commonlyRead more
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