Social Prescriptions to Improve Mental Health
The prescriptions listed below are drawn from Johann Hari’s work. However, Hari’s ideas have a wide range of precursors. In considering these “social prescriptions” it is important to keep in…
Depression:A Social or Biological Disorder?
Hari begins his book “Lost Connections” by describing his own struggles with depression, since adolescence, and his subsequent examination of medication treatment of depression. What makes this book particularly valuable…
Towards a more Scientific Approach to Psychotherapy
Most therapists believe that the treatment approach/model that they utilize is clearly the best way to do therapy. I can remember as far back as graduate school, where the Behaviorist…
Habits, Will Power, and Change
In her recent book, Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, the psychologist Wendy Wood, examines how we develop habits, both good and bad, and…
Guess who may or may not be coming to dinner; managing holidays during the Pandemic
It should not be surprising that couples/families have different opinions about whether or not they should get together in person over the holidays. We have witnessed conflicts about whether to…