Keoni Cabral / Foter / CC BY Suicide is a loaded issue, even within the therapy community. Sulome Anderson‘s article in The Atlantic, “How Patient Suicide Affects Psychiatrists” addresses numerous issues therapists struggle with. Anderson invokes this issue of the undesirable therapy patient in a very personal way. The author’s friend, Margaret, had numerous suicide attempts, self-harming behaviors,Read more
Thoughts on Hope in NYC Therapy
Creating Hope: It’s life or death. Therapy for depression Here’s how it can go when we need help with depression: You haven’t landed that full-time job yet, you’re living back with your parents after graduation, you’re feeling isolated from those you went to school with and are scared to talk to them. They have theirRead more
Therapy for depression or something else?
Ame Otoko / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Therapy for depression? More complicated than you may think This article “It’s Not Always Depression” from the New York Times has me thinking about what any good therapist knows about therapy for depression: depression is but one mode of understanding an emotional experience that needs to be lookedRead more
Depression doesn’t cause plane wrecks: Reality testing from a therapist
It doesn’t take a depression therapist to see: Depression doesn’t cause plane wrecks. You don’t need to be a depression therapist to know that. More precisely, depression doesn’t cause people to fly airplanes into the side of mountains. Even if you haven’t particularly stopped to think about this, I challenge you to slow down forRead more
No, we don’t offer support groups at TriBeCa Therapy
Ian Sane / Foter / CC BY As a therapy center in the heart of New York City that offers several options for group therapy, we get a lot of calls from prospective therapy patients asking if we offer support groups. Nope. No way. Why? Because we don’t believe in the premise. There are aRead more