Tag Archives: Irvine

Understanding the Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Reference | November 1, 2011

What Does It Mean to be Obsessive Compulsive? People with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder spend a disproportionate amount of their time thinking and doing rather than enjoying other states of being, such as playing, sensing, daydreaming, intuiting, or creating art. … Continue reading →

What Is Online Counseling, and Is There a Place for It in the Therapeutic Milieu?

Therapy | October 9, 2011

What is Online Therapy? Online therapy, through videoconferencing with Skpe and other encrypted digital software makes it possible to access a mental health professional remotely and to have a session over video. This type of online counseling is also known … Continue reading →

Research Shows that Psychotherapy Helps Severe Schizophrenia

Therapy | October 6, 2011

People who suffer from severe schizophrenia have often been considered beyond help when it comes to talk therapy, and it has been a long held belief that schizophrenics must depend solely on medication management for the treatment of their symptoms, … Continue reading →

Is Marriage In Trouble in The United States?

Marriage | September 25, 2011

A recent study by the National Marriage Project of the University of Virginia has found that for the first time in the United States, children are more likely to be living with two biological parents who have never married than … Continue reading →

Understanding PTSD through the Lens of 09/11

Therapy | August 18, 2011

PTSD is a terrifying, debilitating, and often isolating condition that is little understood among the population at large. In this blog, I would like to examine what is PTSD, why it is so often misunderstood and misdiagnosed, and what can … Continue reading →