Mental Health Dictionary

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Wikipedia
Cognitive behavioral therapy (or cognitive behavior therapy, CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims to influence dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure.… View
Erectile Dysfunction • Wikipedia
Erectile dysfunction (ED or (male) impotence) is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance.[1]… View
Mood Disorder • Wikipedia, the free encylopedia
A mood disorder is the term given for a group of diagnoses in the DSM IV TR classification system where a disturbance in the person's emotional mood is hypothesised to… View
Schizophrenia • Wikipedia
Schizophrenia (pronounced /ˌskɪtsɵˈfrɛniə/ or /ˌskɪtsɵˈfriːniə/), from the Greek roots skhizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-; "mind") is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by… View

Mind and Body

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Coping with Change • Nova Reed, M.A., Life Coach
Life changing events can send a jolt through your well-being creating a state of unbalance and stress. A major change in your life, the death of a loved one, divorce,… View
Emotional Intelligence - and what it can do for you • Gareth Harris
Have you heard of IQ? Do you know what IQ is? Do you know what your IQ score is? You may well be able to answer yes to one or… View
Emotions as Weather • Tina Tessina, Ph.D.
Although most people in the country wouldn’t agree, we in Southern California have been having extreme weather conditions for us: rain and mudslides. You could almost say we’re so used to… View
Failing Forward • MJ Ryan
Once I got an email from a woman who had just read my book on patience. She had just had a miscarriage and had discovered she had to wait for… View
Gay Enlightenment • Payam Ghassemlou, Ph.D.
After the hard emotional labor of tearing down the closet door, I continued my quest for enlightenment on a deeper level. I am no longer wasting valuable psychic energy repressing… View
Sandplay Therapy • Payam Ghassemlou, Ph.D.
As a kid I played freely on the beaches of the Caspian Sea, which offered me sand, water, and lots of opportunities for imaginative play. There was something magical about… View
Seven Things to Do to Improve Your Body Image and Self-Esteem • Catherine Cardinal, Ph.D.
Maintaining a balance between our weight, our self-esteem and a healthy body-image seems to be a constant battle for women. We don’t tend see ourselves accurately and are often most… View
The Perfect You • Ariel and Shya Kane
Where did you learn what is beautiful? Where did you learn what is ugly? Where did you learn what a perfect body looks like?... And how old were you when… View
Three Simple Ways to Release Stress • Gloria Arenson, MFT
We are now living in very stressful times. War, global warming and economic disasters plague us. Yet, most of our stress arises from our negative thoughts and beliefs. We tend… View

Featured Article Archive

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Conquer Your Fears, Change Your Life • Mark J. Holland
Where all else fails to stop us from achieving what we want from life, fear steps in. We experience fear on both conscious and unconscious levels, and it is one… View
Conversation with a Non-Believer • Thom Rutledge, psychotherapist
"I don't believe in therapy."
Most of us have heard that one. It is an interesting position to take--an extreme statement that can never be based on fact. It is… View
Dads, Daughters, and Body Image • Mary Jo Rapini, licensed psychotherapist
From the moment she says “dada” she is under your influence. Dads give their daughters many things, security, confidence, but perhaps the most important gift (or lack thereof) is their… View
Eating Disorders Explained • Shannon Cutts
Attempting to understand the mystery that is an unfolding eating disorder is akin to attempting to comprehend the complexities of black holes… View
From Frog To Royal Highness And Back Again – 10 Tips to Help You Find out if The One You Love Is a Frog at Heart • Miche Smith and Dr. Kathy Nickerson
What happens when the prince or princess of your dreams goes from Charming . . . to Alarming? Are there ways to tell if your partner is really a frog… View
How to Parent More Effectively • Jesse Jayne Rutherford and Kathleen Nickerson, PhD
There’s a continuum of parenting styles, from the very harsh, authoritarian style (“You do what I say because I’m the boss, or else!”) to the passive, permissive style (“Don’t throw… View
How to Tell if Your Relationship Is Abusive • Jesse Jayne Rutherford
If you feel like you’re being controlled or dominated by your partner, feel like you’re always walking on eggshells around your partner, or wonder why you’ve become isolated from your family and friends,… View