The FDA & MDMA
...we still haven't made much progress in terms of agreeing on what qualifies as legitimate psychotherapy. Or perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t.
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Trauma and EMDR
You want to see what PTSD is really about? Do room checks on these wards at night. Nobody here ever gets a decent night’s sleep. It’s a succession of nightmares.
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Placebo Power
I’ve heard from various physicians over the years that as patient visits grow ever briefer– down to 11 minutes in some clinical settings– doctors are increasingly quick with the prescription pad.
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More on Incentives
One program complained that the incentive program seemed to work best with people who were already more motivated, and not as well with more resistant clients.
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Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
If you’d paid thousands of dollars in order to travel to a foreign country for a last-ditch, Hail Mary-type grab at lasting relief, wouldn’t you really want it to work?
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Teletreatment Update
I get frequent questions from providers unsure how well their telehealth clients are actually doing, in terms of common measures like, say, substance use. Are they drinking, still using drugs?
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The Nausea Solution
Of the patients I met, all decided on aversion therapy for essentially the same reason: they’d tried other things, experienced relapse, and lost patience.
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Opioid Tapering
Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
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Evidence is Great, But…
Research admittedly takes a long time, including the need for replication, and patients in clinical programs aren’t necessarily willing to wait.
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Pain Psychology
Perhaps more important, the patient could begin to resume a normal life.
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Is Your Therapy Dull?
“It’s too much like doing your taxes,” was her verdict. That’s probably the worst thing I’ve heard anyone say about psychotherapy.
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Individualizing Treatment With Alternative Therapies
Some approaches are better than others at helping an individual identify what works for them in understanding their disease and establishing a stable recovery.
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Weird Science
A new study may be exciting to read, but its credibility will ultimately depend on the accumulation of a body of evidence that confirms it.
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