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 Can Digital Psychiatry Really Fill the Mental Health Care Gap?

Thousands of new tools with unproven results are entering the fold to help Americans in need.

 CBT? DBT? Psychodynamic? What type of therapy is right for me?

Since ancient times, cultures across the world have understood that human suffering can have psychological causes. At its core, psychotherapy is working with another person to help identify and address emotional challenges that matter to you. It involves trying to understand the source of those problems and coming up with ways to tackle them head on.

 The Ancient Roots of Psychotherapy

Our medical ancestors sought to heal the mind long before they could treat diseases of the brain. Magicians and priests tended the sick through suggestion, therapeutic bond, and tincture of time, not by science. This has changed. During the last century and a half, our progress in understanding and treating mental suffering has been remarkable by any standard, drawing importantly upon lessons from the asylum, advances in psychology and the science of the brain, and what had been learned by doctors and nurses who treated shell shock during the First World War.

 Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud

Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology’s dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for psychoanalysis. Is it time to get back on the couch?

 What’s the Smallest Amount of Therapy That’s Still Effective?

Many people make meaningful emotional progress in just a handful of sessions.

 Why Is Talk Therapy So Effective?

Psychotherapy (also known as talk therapy is an approach that some historians say dates back to ancient times. In recent decades, scientists have learned how to measure the benefits of talk therapy. In some circumstances, researchers find that talk therapy is the best.

Are We Focusing On The Right Silent Killer? Digital Solutions Can Be The Answer To Mental Health

The need for holistic treatment focusing on the person is increasingly becoming of paramount significance, especially when there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that physical and mental health are intrinsically interlinked and that one cannot treat each separately.

Can Your Smartphone Read Your Mind?

New apps promise to diagnose mental health problems. But there are reasons to be cautious.

Depressed? Try Therapy Without the Therapist

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a commonly used treatment for depression, anxiety and other conditions. With it, the therapist doesn’t ask you about your mother — or look at the past at all.

Here's Why it's Still Really Hard to Get Men to Go to Therapy

“Basically, psychotherapy was created by men to treat women."

Looking for Evidence That Therapy Works

Mental-health care has come a long way since the remedy of choice was trepanation — drilling holes into the skull to release “evil spirits.” Over the last 30 years, treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and family-based treatment have been shown effective for ailments ranging from anxiety and depression to post-traumatic stress disorder and eating disorders.

Tackling Workers’ Mental Health, One Text at a Time

Employers are turning to counseling services that can be accessed on smartphones.

Talking To A Therapist Could Be The Secret To Sleeping Better

Sleeping pills may not be the only option for the 50million to 70 million Americans suffering from chronic insomnia. A new review of research suggests that talking to a therapist should be the first line of treatment.

Therapy Is Great, but I Still Need Medication

Please don’t tell me I just need to try cognitive behavioral therapy.

These scientists want to make psychotherapy sessions much, much shorter

Can single, 30-minute sessions of therapy help kids struggling with depression?

Why Art Should Be Incorporated into Mental Health Therapy

It's too simplistic to suggest that the arts can solve the mental health crisis, but there's hope that more funding and more debate around the issues could help improve our wellbeing.

How to Know What Kind of Therapy You Need

Depending on what you're going through.

The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now

CHATBOTS ARE TAKING over the world. Over the past few years, virtual help agents have taken on surprisingly sensitive jobs in modern society: counseling Syrian refugees fleeing civil war, creating quiet spaces of contemplation for millions of Chinese living in densely populated cities, and helping Australians access national disability benefits. Bots have offered help, support, and companionship. But there’s one line none of them have yet crossed: actually treating patients.

Couch Wars

Does one form of psychotherapy work better than another?

Does Therapy Really Work? Let’s Unpack That.

Research shows that counseling delivers great benefits to many people. But it’s hard to say exactly what that means for you.

How Can You Tell If Therapy Is Actually Working?

It’s not always obvious whether therapy is improving your life.

How to Know What Kind of Therapy You Need

Talk therapy comes in various forms and flavors—Behavioral, Existential, and Psychoanalytic, to name just a few, and there’s no “one size fits all” treatment for mental health concerns. But knowing learning how certain types of treatment work (and whether they tend to work well for various mental health challenges) can be helpful when you’re shopping for a therapist.

Lost in the Storm

My 10-year-old daughter thinks she should be dead. When I tried to help her, I saw how deep our national crisis really is.

Psychoanalysis Can Be Pretty Useful

According to Robert Rowland Smith at More Intelligent Life, psychoanalysis--the butt of jokes and a decades-long bane of checkbook balances--is losing its scientific chops, thanks to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Unlike psychoanalysis, CBT is a measurable, quantifiable treatment. Calling psychoanalysis "science" is "laughable," while Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a science dream of sorts, for many of the reason psychoanalysis is derided:

The Quick Therapy That Actually Works

Just a few hours of therapy-like interventions can reduce some people’s anxiety.

Therapy Is Great, but I Still Need Medication

Please don’t tell me I just need to try cognitive behavioral therapy.

These scientists want to make psychotherapy sessions much, much shorter

Psychotherapy — a.k.a. talk-based therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy being the most prominent — usually takes place over the course of weeks and months, in hour-long sessions. Schleider’s interventions are radically different: They take about 30 minutes each, and are partially drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy.