Psychotherapy for Chronic Back Pain: How Can Psychological Interventions Help Manage, Treat the Condition?

Medicine & Technology Apr 06, 2022

Research revealed psychotherapy may help both patients and clinicians deal with chronic back pain. Learn more about how psychological interventions may help.

Alcohol Addiction: Can Pschotherapy and Ketamine Solve This?

Jun 21, 2021

The use of the anesthetic ketamine in psychotherapy sessions against alcohol addiction is now on trial stage.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is More Effective Online Than In-Person

Jul 09, 2020

The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy through online ways debunk psychotherapy perceptions that have been commonly accepted.

Psychotherapist Reveals How Easing of Restrictions Could Lead People to Feel Anxious and Overwhelmed

May 29, 2020

Do you secretly want the lockdown to continue? Maybe you're one of those people who felt unsure, scared, and confused about reintegrating back into social circles.

Ecstasy for the Terminally Ill? Will This Party Drug Prove Effective Against Anxiety?

May 28, 2015

Scientists from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) are hoping to help 18 terminally ill patients relieve their anxiety, depression, and fear in the next year during extended psychotherapy sessions enhanced by MDMA (ecstasy). The Marin County-based double-blind trial will see subjects test either full doses of MDMA (125 milligrams) or active placebo doses (30 milligrams).

Suicide Risk Greater for Children of Parents Who Attempted Suicide

Jan 01, 2015

New research published online in the journal JAMA Psychiatry has revealed that a child is more likely to attempt suicide if his or her parents have attempted suicide in the past. In fact, children with parents who have attempted suicide are five times more likely to attempt it themselves, compared to children with parents who haven't attempted suicide.

Suicide Attempts Decreased In People Who Went Through Talk Therapy

Nov 26, 2014

Suicide attempts decreased in people who sought talk therapy, study finds.