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Couples Therapy for substance use
If one partner has a drinking or drug problem and they're in a relationship, the partner is part of the treatment whether anybody signs them up for it or…
Jun 6, 2025Group Therapy: what actually happens in the room
Group therapy is the treatment I refer to most often and the one patients fight me hardest on. The fight is almost always the same: I don’t want…
Jun 4, 2025
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS (internal family systems, the therapy model that asks the patient to relate to different aspects of himself as if they were distinct internal parts…
Jun 1, 2025Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy, a “third-wave” behavioral therapy that grew up out of the CBT lineage in the late 80s and 90s) has built itself into a…
May 30, 2025
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Prolonged exposure is one of the two gold-standard treatments for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder, the trauma-spectrum condition that follows certain…
May 27, 2025
Self-Harm in Adult Men
Self-harm in adult men is a thing we don’t talk about much, because the cultural picture of self-harm is a teenage girl with a razor and her arms,…
May 24, 2025
Body Dysmorphic Disorder in men
Body dysmorphic disorder in men is more common than most clinicians catch, and it shows up differently from how the textbook describes it because the…
May 22, 2025
Sleep, Stress, and Your Brain
Sleep deprivation isn't something you can think your way out of. Chronic stress and five hour nights make everything else on your psych chart worse.
May 18, 2025
Complicated Grief / Prolonged Grief Disorder
Prolonged grief disorder made it into the DSM-5-TR (the most current version of the psychiatric diagnostic manual) in 2022, and the diagnosis is useful…
May 17, 2025
Burnout (ICD-11)
Burnout picked up an actual ICD-11 (the international diagnostic codebook used outside the U.S.) designation in 2019, and the conversation since then has…
May 14, 2025
You mad, bro?
A lot of guys think anger is the problem because anger is the part everybody sees...
May 11, 2025
PMDD (for the partners who live with it)
This one's for the husbands, because most of the guys who come in with a wife who has PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the severe, predictable mood…
May 11, 2025