The latest in Mental Health Treatments

Talk therapy reduces back pain

2010-02-26T11:45:51Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with chronic low-back pain can benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, a new British report shows.</p><p>Low-back pain is one of the most costly and disabling health problems in developed countries, the researchers write in The Lancet, but so far effective treatment has been lacking.</p><p>When they...

Videoconferencing could help vets manage anger

2010-02-22T09:13:35Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anger management group therapy can be just as effective over video hookup as in person, according to a new Veterans Administration (VA) study.</p><p>If the study's conclusions hold up in further research, the findings may go a long way towa...

Few depressed Americans treated appropriately: study

2010-02-22T23:20:36Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most Americans with major depression go untreated or under treated using a benchmark of American Psychiatric Association guidelines, according to a national study released this week.</p><p>Mexican Americans and African Americans are the least lik...

Psychotherapy, guided self-help best for binge eating

2010-02-23T01:30:55Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain kinds of talk therapy and guided self-help are both more likely than behavioral weight loss treatment to keep people free from binge eating disorder, according to a new study.</p><p>In prior research, these treatments for binge eating have had similar short-term results. Long-term data, however, have been lacking, according to the r...

Self-help on par with therapy for binge-eaters

2010-02-23T14:11:07Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Out of control" binge eaters who get help from a therapist do better in the short-term than people who use self-help techniques, new research shows.</p><p>But in the long-term, self-help and therapist-led or therapist-assisted approaches seem to have about the same effectiveness, Dr. ...

Understanding and Finding Effective Treatment For Alcoholism

2010-02-23T15:57:03Z

According to world health organization (WHO) a drug is defined as whatever substance that, once taken into the living organism may change one or a lot of it is works. When any drug or alcohol takes on a very much greater priority in an someone and alters the individual physiological, behavioral and cognitive pattern then it's referred to as addiction. Basic substances that are separated as psychoactive substances are amphetamines, alcohol, cocaine, opioids, sedatives, can nabinoids, hallucino...

Bruni-Sarkozy tells of 8 years in psychoanalysis

2010-02-24T08:32:24Z

<div id="subtitle">French first lady Bruni-Sarkozy tells TV show of her 8 years `body and soul' in psychoanalysis</div><div><p>During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.</p><p>But after her father died, the then-28-year-old model dove into therapy "body and soul," and has since spent many years in...

Panic Treatments ? Potions For Peace

2010-02-25T04:52:46Z

Anxiety and panic disorders have disordered the lives of many. Today?s world is reeling under strain, hustle and bustle, and in its haste to achieve the work of 24 days in 24 hours, falling victim to a troubled mind.However, the anxiety disorders are a set of several ailments and to incriminate one?s busy lifestyle as the sole wrongdoer would be an over simplification. Ongoing research has discovered several other responsible factors ? one?s genes, predominantly.<br><br&a...

2 people die in poisoning at German therapy group

2010-02-25T05:04:15Z

<div><p>A doctor leading a group therapy session gave participants drugs and other substances that killed two and left 10 hospitalized, Berlin police said Sunday. One person was left comatose and in critical condition.</p><p>The doctor who led the session has acknowledged giving the participants various substances and drugs during the meeting, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 20, 2009. Two people died and 10 others were hospitalized after being poisoned while taking part in a group therapy session in Berlin, German police said Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. One person is in critical condition in a coma. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Suitable Treatment For Anxiety and Panic Disorders

2010-02-25T11:17:31Z

Panic treatments basically fall into two categories. The physician may initially try out some form of behavior therapy to help you in controlling your reactions to the surge of adrenalin that you experience during a panic attack. In more severe cases, you may be put on some medications which help you to do so. A combination of both behavioral therapy and medications is also used at times.?There are two major categories of panic treatments. Doctors apply some sort of behavior therapies at the ...

Anxiety Attack Medications: Soothing the Frayed Nerves

2010-02-25T22:42:58Z

Anxiety disorder and panic attacks are diseases of our modern times. 'I am so worried' may well be the most oft used phrase of the current era. Work pressure, family issues, personal tendencies and unfortunate experiences in life - they all contribute in the creation of that seven-letter long multi-headed monster - 'Anxiety.'<br><br>Our world has become complex and so have its components. Out of these trillions of components, which one acts as a trigger in your bod...

Horse Racing - Shergar Cup

2009-08-14T06:58:40Z

Horse Racing - Shergar Cup - Ascot Racecourse - 8/8/09..Group Therapy ridden by Fredrik Johansson (R) wins the 1.10 Barclays Shergar Cup Dash Handicap....

Anxiety Attack Cure ? Analysis of Thought, Lysis of Anxiety

2010-02-25T23:00:58Z

Today our life is nothing but a series of intricacies. Tension, sorrow and trauma are reigning supreme all over and every human being is fighting some issue or the other. Relaxation is so far from us that we cannot achieve it even during holidays meant for it. Anxiety, stress and strain has become an indispensable part of our lives.<br><br>A more heightened and intensified worry is anxiety disorder and panic attack. Let us try and find out more about panic attacks....

Anxiety Disorder Help ? Pacifying Life

2010-02-25T23:01:34Z

Anxiety disorders are the commonest psychiatrist disorders of the world. The ailment can take any one of the following forms -<br><br>* Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)<br>* Obsessive and Compulsive Disorder (OCD)<br>* Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)<br>* Phobias<br>* Social Disorders<br><br>Out of all these, the commonest occurrence is of GAD. OCD is mostly of a genetic ori...

China stops shock therapy for Internet addicts

2010-02-26T09:43:52Z

<div id="subtitle">China orders halt to treating Internet addicts with electric shock therapy</div><div><p>China's Health Ministry has ordered a hospital to stop using electric shock therapy to cure youths of Internet addiction, saying there was no scientific evidence it worked.</p><p>Liny...

How Do You Go About With Effective Childhood Depression Treatment

2010-02-26T10:38:36Z

The thing about this sort of condition really stems from how the child was treated during his or her childhood, and the experiences that they have been exposed to. This condition is called developmental depression, and they can affect children from the ages of 4 and up. Most psychologists would agree that the main reason for childhood developmental depression stems from negative reinforcement that they get exposed to when they are children.<br><br>For example, this...

Talk therapy key to conquering insomnia: study

2010-02-27T08:15:03Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Teaching insomniacs how to fall asleep through talk therapy produces better results than continued use of sleep medications that carry dependency risks, according to a study released on Tuesday.</p><p>In a study of 160 adults diagnosed with chronic insomnia, researchers at

The Arts and Psychotherapy

2010-02-28T19:59:17Z

<p>The Arts and Psychotherapy</p><p>By Patti Lamb</p><p></p><p>Throughout all of time psychotherapists have been looking for an "edge" to reach people under their care. The traditional group or individual therapy sessions where the patient sits and talks based on the direction of the therapist or the freewheeling random thought process of the patient, did not always obtain the solution or results...

Santa Rosa California News - April 13, 2009

2009-04-17T13:38:59Z

4/12/2009: B1: Peter Bernstein, who has a PhD. in clinical psychology and is a Marriage and Family Therapist, is director of the Bernstein Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in Petaluma. [Voices column