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Understanding the therapeutic process of mother-infant psychotherapy

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Psychotherapists who treat mothers suffering from postpartum depression and other mood disorders with their infants have developed a proven process that contributes to a greater positive experience with immediate insights ...





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Psychotherapy should be subject to rigorous regulation just like drug treatments, say academics

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Psychotherapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) are under-regulated in the UK and should be subject to the same standards of evidence as drugs, assert two experts in psychological medicine writing in the Journal of ...


SSRIs may reduce suicide in adults

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may reduce the risk of suicide in depressed adults, according to a study by researchers from the World Health Organization and the University of Verona, Italy published in CMAJ http:/ ...


Psychotherapy may improve course of medical disorders

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Somatic symptom disorders are common, disabling and costly. This meta-analysis indicates how short-term dynamic psychotherapy may be effective on physical symptoms, psychiatric symptoms and social adjustment, even in the ...


Siblings of schizophrenia patients display subtle shape abnormalities in brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Subtle malformations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia also tend to occur in their healthy siblings, according to investigators at the Silvio Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders at Washington ...


Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective when delivered in real time by a therapist

Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective when delivered in real time by a therapist

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) seems to be effective when delivered online in real time by a therapist, with benefits maintained over 8 months. This method of delivery could broaden access ...


Depression may increase exacerbations, hospitalizations in COPD

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It is well known that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently suffer from depression and anxiety, but according to new research, depression and anxiety may actually cause increased hospitalizations ...


Internet of long-term benefit for depression: Study

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created Oct 10, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Mental health researchers at The Australian National University have found that brief Internet-based interventions for depression are not only immediately effective, but have a significant positive long-term benefit that ...


Researchers identify alcoholism subtypes

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created Jun 28, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Analyses of a national sample of individuals with alcohol dependence (alcoholism) reveal five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to a new study by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ...


Men worry more about penile size than women says six-decade research review

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created May 31, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (51) | comments 1

Women are much more interested in a man’s personality and looks than the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of ...


Full recovery now possible for an 'untreatable' mental illness

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Patients coping with the chaos and misery of Borderline Personality Disorder now have reason for strong confidence in making major life changes through a new treatment, Schema Therapy. For the first time, three major outcome ...



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