December 1st, 2010
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness. Mental health is about being resilient, having strong relationships with others and yourself and carrying a sense of...
December 1st, 2010
By Ami Albernaz
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin, which largely fell out of favor among researchers in the early 1970s, have re-emerged in studies of severe depression and...
November 1st, 2010
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
‘Invaluable’ resource looks at ethical dilemmas
“The Violent Person”
By Raymond B. Flannery
American Mental...
November 1st, 2010
By Phyllis Hanlon
Bing Crosby was on to something when he sang “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” to Rosemary Clooney in the movie “White Christmas.” Clinical...
November 1st, 2010
By Ami Albernaz
For the past decade or so, substance abuse counselors, law enforcement and families have been faced with a particularly pernicious problem: the skyrocketing abuse of...
November 1st, 2010
By Ami Albernaz
Between 2002 and 2007, more Americans died of opiate-related overdoses than were killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In Massachusetts alone during those years, 78 soldiers...
November 1st, 2010
By Phyllis Hanlon
The news is not good, but not as bad as it could be, according to Brenda M. Harvey, commissioner of Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Over...
November 1st, 2010
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
When I decided to spend part of a recent Sunday afternoon at a reading by Robert Coles in a bookstore in a nearby town, I knew I was in for a pleasant drive through the fall...
November 1st, 2010
By Edward Stern J.D.
Forces are in the health care system changing its landscape. The greatest changes seem to revolve around the payments of insurance, including who will provide particular...
November 1st, 2010
By Ami Albernaz
We all know someone we could classify as a workaholic – maybe that person works 70-hour weeks or never seems to take a vacation. Now, the topic of work addiction –...
