This is Your Life on Meditation: Increasing Happiness & Well Being

Meditation has been around for a very long time—meditative practices appear in many early religious texts essential to Hinduism, Judaism, and Buddhism—but despite its spiritual origins, research suggests that the important role meditation plays in increasing happiness is something everyone can agree on. No matter where you’re at in life, meditation can teach you how to…

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Change Your Thinking

Anxiety, depression, and other psychological conditions that affect your quality of life are more than just imbalances in the chemicals your brain uses to regulate your mood. Research shows that mood disorders occur when a variety of social, psychological, and environmental factors intersect in your life. Your childhood fears often leave a lasting imprint on…

Could you benefit from psychotherapy?

Every year one in five adults in the United States experiences an emotional problem or mental disorder serious enough to warrant treatment. Psychotherapy – also referred to as talk therapy – is often recommended. What Is Psychotherapy? Psychotherapy addresses troubling symptoms and emotions using psychological techniques. There are many forms of “psychotherapy” – over 400…

I‘m just not good enough – and I’m not sure about you.

Several of my patients commented on a recent article in the Health Section of the New York Times that dealt with perfectionism (“Unhappy? Self-critical? Maybe You’re Just a Perfectionist”, December 4, 2007). They’d homed in on the article because it was about the issue that had brought them into treatment with me. A problem that…