Zen Psychiatry
By Elana Miller, MD
Let me ask you a question.Imagine you have a daughter (or if you have a daughter, imagine her). She's about 5, and one day she's bitten by a dog.Now she's terrified of all dogs, and you notice …
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Wondering if you could use some therapy? Well, you probably could.This doesn't mean anything is wrong with you. Many people have a misunderstanding that being in therapy means you're "crazy" or so …
Sunday afternoon I returned from a weekend at Casa de Maria, a beautiful center in Santa Barbara, California with rolling hills, miles of trails, swimming pools, massage centers...There were many …
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I'm currently sitting in the Portland airport, watching masses of people swarming around as almost every flight has been delayed for various mechanical reasons.While I'd like to be on my way home …
Long before Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams or William James opened his first psychology laboratory at Harvard, Buddhist thinkers sought to understand the inner workings of the mind and …
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Last month, in a debut surrounded by controversy, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the 5th version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the book that contains listings of all …
