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Published: 03/5/11

The Week in Weird (Naked Therapy Edition)

By Tony Deconinck - AOL News

Welcome 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 ...

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Published: 03/3/11

Nude Therapist Takes Off (and Takes It All Off) in New York

By Michael McLaughlin - AOL News

Usually the patients are expected to bare all in therapy sessions, but Manhattan therapist Sarah White is the one revealing everything in her nude online sessions. Her unconventional style is geared toward getting men (of course) to seek the benefits of psychotherapy. "For men especially, who are less likely than women to go to therapy, it is more interesting, more enticing, more exciting," White told the New York Daily News. "It's a more inspiring approach to therapy." An hourlong session with White, 24, is part therapeutic treatment, part burlesque show. Conducted through a live video ...

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Published: 12/2/10

Army Plans 'Virtual Afghanistan' to Help Treat PTSD

By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News

ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 2) -- An Army-funded institute that has used virtual reality to help treat traumatized veterans of the war in Iraq is now moving to build an even more detailed virtual world of Afghanistan. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, which conducted pioneering work using virtual reality to treat those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, recently received funding from the U.S. Army to build a new, advanced computer program based on Afghanistan, according to Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo, a research scientist at the ...

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Published: 10/12/10

Florida Teen Set on Fire a Year Ago Turns 16

By Mara Gay - AOL News

(Oct. 12) -- It's a very sweet 16th birthday for Michael Brewer. Just a year ago, the Florida teen was nearly killed when his classmates allegedly doused him with rubbing alcohol and lit him on fire. Today, on his 16th birthday, after months of surgeries and painful physical therapy, Brewer says he can do pretty much anything other teens do. It was "prayers, belief and family" that got him through, the teenager told NBC's "Today" show this morning as he sat with his mother and grandparents. Brewer, who suffered burns to as much as 80 percent of his body, completed his final physical therapy ...

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Published: 09/13/10

Teen Struggles to Recover From Text Message Beating

By Lisa Flam - AOL News

(Sept. 13) -- Six months ago, Josie Ratley lay in a Florida hospital bed, her brain severely damaged from a near-fatal beating that followed a series of text messages with a teenage boy. Today, Josie may look like a typical 15-year-old girl, laughing, wearing makeup and poking fun at her mom. But she's had three brain operations, and though she's made strides, she still has a long way to go. "Physical, she's great. She looks beautiful," her mother, Hilda Gotay, said today on NBC's "Today" show. "But the inside of her brain is not very good." Josie was beaten March ...

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Published: 08/25/10

Psychotherapy: That'll Be $100,000. Sorry, No Warranty

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

My colleague Mary C. Curtis writes that Betty Draper has returned to the therapist office. "Mad Men" is set in the 1960s, and there's a good chance Draper's health insurance picked up 80 percent of that tab, if not the whole shebang. Ah, those were the days. Now, you're more likely to get three visits a year. That is, if you're still employed and even have insurance at all. With real unemployment soaring near levels last seen in the 1930s, I doubt people will be able to pay the premiums offered by private companies. (Public Option, was it something I said?) My colleague Delia writes about ...

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Published: 07/19/10

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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Published: 01/10/10