This week, Mariah Carey revealed her experiences with bipolar disorder in People Magazine. Using this moment to talk about bipolar disorder more generally–its diagnosis and treatment, Refinery29 reached out to our NYC therapy practice. In the article “Why It Took So Long For Mariah Carey To Get Help For Bipolar Disorder,” writer Kimberly Truong quotes our director MattRead more
Doing While You’re Depressed
Depression Can Make Even Basic Tasks, From Getting Out Of Bed To Going To Therapy, Seem Impossible I frequently see patients with depression struggling with immobilization and feeling stuck in my NYC therapy practice. When you’re depressed, it’s often hard to even do the basics. With depression, you can feel hopeless, sad and numb. AllRead more
13 Ways “13 Reasons Why” Expands The Conversation On Teens And Mental Health: 13. Teen Mental Health Is More Than Just Being Hormonal
It’s the final day (with the full round-up tomorrow) of the 13 ways the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why expands the conversation about teens and mental health: 13. Teen Mental Health Is More Than Just Being Hormonal Often with teens, we want their mental health to be hormonal because that means it’s just a phase that will passRead more
The Big Antidepressants Question
As a psychotherapist, I often confront the debate about using medication to treat depression and anxiety in my NYC therapy practice. It is a big question. There’s a perception at times that because we practice a non-diagnostic approach, are critical of the medical model and express concern about how antidepressants and other psychiatric medications are marketedRead more
Should Racism Be A Psychiatric Diagnosis?
I have written extensively about non-diagnostic therapy–one meaningful way of describing the sort of therapy we practice at our downtown NYC therapy center. The phrase is meant to contrast us with the model of how therapy is traditionally practiced wherein an assessment is made in the interest of producing a mental health diagnosis and then,Read more
Group Shaming in the Internet Age: The 21st Century Bystander Effect
The Effect of Groups on Our Capacity to Help I distinctly remember the first time I learned about social psychology–I was sitting in a large auditorium when my dry Psychology 101 professor clicked his slideshow to an image of NYC in the 60’s. As I doodled in the margins of my notebook, my professor began to speak about Kitty Genovese, aRead more
What are you? (Therapy patient? Client?)
If you’re like most people I talk to about this topic, you couldn’t care less about how we refer to the folks we work with in our NYC therapy office. In fact, the odds are slim that you’d ever be referred to by anything but your first name by your therapist. And so it mayRead more
Diagnosis in therapy: The joke’s on you
A new prisoner is escorted to his cell, on a block with a lot of old timers. A few minutes after lights out, one of them calls out, “17!” and the others roar with laughter. Moments later another cries, “41!.” Laughter bellows through the cell block. This continues sporadically for several minutes until, at aRead more
Beyond managed care: Out-of-network psychotherapy in NYC
Hayleyisfree / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND For the purpose of this conversation, psychotherapists in NYC (the market is quite different elsewhere) can be roughly divided into two camps: those who accept insurance as an in-network provider and those who do not. When we talk about psychotherapists, by the way, we’re including a whole lot ofRead more
“Astoria for grief” and the managed-care swap meet
You can imagine my momentary confusion on spotting this subject line from an unfamiliar email address: “Astoria for grief.” The title reminded me of one of those 1970’s only-in-NYC thrillers, like The Taking of Pelham 123, or The French Connection, or even the Spider-Man series, and I began to envision a hospice-worker protagonist rushing toRead more
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