How does psychotherapy actually work? Good question. The answer is interesting and has to do with how your brain works. The basic idea of psychotherapy is that you take emotional content from a primitive part of the brain and bring it to another more sophisticated, thinking part, where it can be examined and understood. Here’s [...]
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This is your brain. This is your brain on psychotherapy.
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged brain, evolution, lizard, mammal, psychotherapy on January 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Sex addict? What’s a sex addict?
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, Thoughts and Musings, tagged 12-step, alcohol, anonymous sex, cruising online, drugs, fellowship, food, intervention, marijuana, rehab center, sex, sex addict, sexual addiction, sexual hook-ups, Tiger Woods on January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We found out last week that Tiger Woods has checked himself into a posh rehab center for sex addicts. This raises the issue of whether sexual addiction really exists. I think it is a fair question. After all, we’re all sex addicts, to some degree – sex is a normal, necessary human drive. Sex also [...]
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