Should we trust the experts?
While historians and social commentators debate the extent to which experts have been trusted in our society, both currently and in the past, there certainly appears to be a decline…
What can we learn from philosophers
On New Year’s day I was reviewing the New York Times newsletters, which show up in my email. The newsletter on Wellness featured an article titled “The 7 day Happiness…
Will therapy work for me?
In thinking about how to best address these issues I first thought about trying to delve more into the research, but as the author of the New York Times article…
The Mental Health Crisis: Whose crisis is it?
Thomas Insel, M.D., former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in his most recent book, “Healing: Our path from mental illness to mental health” (1) argues that our…
What makes therapy work: Part II
The debate about what accounts for therapy’s benefit has raged within the field for decades. Back when this writer was in graduate school the debate tended to be between more…