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There’s No Such Thing as Generalized Anxiety: Only an Overwhelming Accumulation of Unresolved Anxieties

Posted on in Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for anxiety, Therapy for Stress

Anxiety is a signal, not a biological disorder We have an idea of anxiety as this amorphous thing, which culminates in the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder. This idea likely grows out of a wish that anxiety was a biological disorder, a malfunction of the nervous system that is correctible just likeRead more

Want to Spot a Narcissist? Find a Therapist “Warning You” About Them on Social Media

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Diagnosis, Family Therapy, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

The Internet has discovered a scourge of narcissism: If only they could look in the mirror If you ask the Internet, there is an ever-present threat of manipulative narcissism. So much so that therapists, coaches, and other influencers have taken to social media to warn their followers about how to spot a narcissist. However, theRead more

Improving Miscarriage Care Means Confronting the Loss: Senior Therapist and Director of Tribeca Maternity Rachael Benjamin in Very Well Family

Posted on in Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Grief, Tribeca Maternity

Miscarriage Has A Real Emotional And Relational Cost That Shouldn’t Be Taken On Without Confronting Loss: Women And Birthing People Need Cohesive Care In my work as Director of Tribeca Maternity, I witness firsthand the emotional and relational toll (in addition to physical and monetary tolls) that miscarriages take on women and birthing people, asRead more

Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist Featured In Tessa Miller’s Book “What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness–Lessons from a Body in Revolt”

Posted on in Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Depression, Therapy for Grief, Trauma and PTSD Therapy

We’re excited to share that our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist appears in health and science journalist Tessa Miller’s recently published book What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness–Lessons from a Body in Revolt. Half memoir and half examination of how to get help when struggling with chronic illness, What Doesn’t KillRead more

Am I Married to a Sociopath Like in HBO’s The Undoing?: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Cut

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Trauma and PTSD Therapy

In HBO’s drama series The Undoing, Grace Fraser, played by Nicole Kidman, is a highly trained psychotherapist who never recognized that her husband of seventeen years, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), was a sociopath. This has led many to wonder: if a Harvard-educated therapist could be in denial (even a fictional one), could I be married toRead more

The Overuse Of Antidepressants Isn’t The Problem: It’s Ignoring The Role Of Trauma In Suffering

Posted on in Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Trauma and PTSD Therapy

There Are Many Common Criticisms Of Antidepressants, Including About Their Overuse  Criticism of antidepressants is a trope employed to a number of different ends. Some frequent critiques of antidepressants are that they are unproven (I think there’s mixed truth here–we know less about how antidepressants work than people think, but some users experience some reliefRead more

Rather Than Getting Rid Of Anxiety, We Should Find A Fluid Way To Relate To It

Posted on in Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for anxiety, Therapy for Stress

Dealing With Anxiety Is More Complex Than Simply Getting Rid Of It  In both psychology and our culture at large, we often talk about treating anxiety by getting rid of it completely. Within this framework, there is one outcome for dealing with anxiety: not having anxiety. This thinking can corner people who are struggling, andRead more

Debunking The Authority Of The DSM

Posted on in Creativity, Diagnosis, Leadership, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Depression

Non-Diagnostic Therapy: Diagnosis As An Offering For Exploration A common misunderstanding about our non-diagnostic therapy practice is that non-diagnostic means “no diagnosis” or “diagnosis = bad.” I’m not against diagnosis and not just because of insurance companies. There is a hugely significant body of work that has produced a few hundred diagnoses and an entireRead more

24 Signs You’re In Bad Therapy

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Diagnosis, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Bad Therapy Is Bad For Your Health As a therapist in NYC, a city with so many therapy options, it bugs me when people are in bad therapy. My biggest concern with patients who stick with bad therapy isn’t only that bad therapy turns people off to therapy, making it less likely they’ll try againRead more

Tribeca Therapy Talks To Refinery29 About Bipolar Disorder And Kanye West

Posted on in Diagnosis, NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for Depression

In our NYC therapy practice, we frequently see how bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses can still be seen as shameful, making it important to challenge this ongoing stigma. However, there is also a risk in romanticizing mental illness. Refinery29 recently asked Tribeca Therapy whether Kanye West was glamorizing mental illness on his new album Ye that refers toRead more

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