As most patients come for their initial visit in some distress, the first two goals are building a mutual understanding of the the distress and focus on symptom relief. I practice as a psychotherapist ...

In this conversation, Jan DeFehr argues that ethical practice requires access to what the field itself disputes, including ...

Emergency Department at Concord Hospital in Concord, NH. Civil liberties advocates say New Hampshire’s practice of affording patients who have been involuntarily committed due to mental health ...

Clinicians often rely on patients to disclose thoughts of self-harm, but some are lobbying for a new diagnosis to better assess the risk. By Christina Caron In his nearly 40-year career as a ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part article. To view Part 1, click here. Claim #6: Diagnosis per se may worsen the patient's distress. The authors argue that, "...labeling distress as abnormal may in itself ...