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The Week in Weird (Naked Therapy Edition)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL NewsWelcome back to a new week and a brand-new roundup of some of the strangest stories in circulation. This week's theme centers on interpersonal relationships, with stories about the validity of nudity in relation to therapy, marriage and making wedding dresses out of the most ephemeral and surprising of materials. But we also have an interesting story about the how one psychologist developed a test to measure whether dogs are self-conscious and one about the ongoing development of space beer. Truly, we live in miraculous times. If you think you're on top of all the weird news out there, jump ...
Five Things Psychotherapists Shouldn't Do
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyDaphne Merkin's recent essay in The New York Times Magazine about her lifelong search for the perfect psycho-therapist has generated quite a bit of buzz. When I first read Merkin's piece, I was fairly sure that it would serve as another great example of the age-old aphorism "there are two types of people in the world...". On the one hand, I knew that some people would be turned off by this five-page, detailed meditation on Merkin's ongoing relationship to psychotherapy, using it as confirmation that psychotherapy really is just an extended exercise in (pointless) narcissism. On the other ...
Ecstasy Shows Promise as PTSD Treatment
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 19) -- Ecstasy, better known as an illicit club drug than one doled out by doctors, has again shown impressive results as an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. That's the conclusion of a study by two psychiatrists published in this month's Journal of Psychopharmacology. Twenty patients afflicted with PTSD were given either Ecstasy or a placebo, and then partook in two eight-hour psychotherapy sessions. The study zeroed in on tough-to-treat cases: Participants had all been coping with PTSD for several years, and the condition hadn't responded to previous treatment ...
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