Topics: Psychotherapy

Here’s an outrageous question for you: Does psychotherapy work? Of course it does, you say, particularly cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). CBT has become so mainstream that Forbes magazine devoted its April 2007 cover article to it.

Topics: Psychotherapy

Over 30 years of practicing and teaching psychotherapy with a range of patients, Dr. Arnold Robbins has developed an integrated approach that can be individualized and is useful for his patients.

Topics: Psychotherapy

Dr. Wright, first of all, I can’t resist plugging your new book on cognitive therapy, which I found really outstanding because it comes packaged with a DVD demonstrating how to actually do CBT with patients.

Topics: Antidepressants

About 20% of patients with cancer develop major depression, and at least 60% present with significant symptoms of sadness and anxiety not severe enough to meet criteria for a DSM-4 disorder.

Topics: Antipsychotics

In 2005, the FDA issued a health advisory saying that antipsychotics appear to increase the risk of death in elderly patients with dementia. That advisory was based on data from placebo-controlled trials of antipsychotics conducted by industry. Now, a new study based on a completely different, and much larger, dataset, appears to confirm these dangers.

In a provocative study, rates of Ritalin prescriptions in Canada from 1994-2000 were compared with rates of divorce. The study focused on children ages 2-7, and found that in families that stayed intact during the study period, 3.3% of children were prescribed Ritalin.

Topics: Antipsychotics

One of the final major questions that the NIMH-funded CATIE trials promised to answer was whether atypical antipsychotics are better at improving cognition in schizophrenia than conventional agents, as some smaller studies implied.