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Understanding LGBTQ-Affirmative Psychotherapy

Filed under: depression psychotherapy

Regardless of LGBTQ status, the challenges that bring people into therapy and the diagnoses they are given – major depression, PTSD, substance use disorder, and the like – are most often manifestations of early-life trauma and shame. In other words …
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Most depression patients get poor treatment

Filed under: depression psychotherapy

A study conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation social research body suggested that 56 percent of people in Germany with serious depression underwent psychotherapy or took medication – but only one or the other, not a combination. The results, reported …
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Could Mushrooms Lead to New Depression Treatments?

Filed under: depression psychotherapy

New research using brain imaging technology helps to clarify how psilocybin — the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms — affects the brain, perhaps paving the way for therapeutic use of the substance as an adjunct to psychotherapy. Dr. Robin …
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