Coronavirus and Mental Health
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH It seems to me as if everyone is trying to understand what is happening, making decisions in the context of a crisis that affects all of us, but that few of […]
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Greatest Secret of Gratitude
“Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the […]
Misplaced Latinos are also part of the human race
Misplaced Latinos are also part of the human race “Worst place,” they say as there is not enough bread. “It’s hell,” they yell as daily, there are hundreds dead. Violence and crime have lasted a […]
The Body Holds Trauma, Full Stop
How to put into words the rage that bubbles up inside when I think…of all that I suffered but did not know how to resist…of what I know now that the preschooler, the child, the […]
Book Review: Exploring the Landscape of the Mind: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Therapy
Book Review Exploring the Landscape of the Mind: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Therapy by Janet Lee Bachant, Ph.D. (2019) New York, NY: IP Books, 223 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Kenneth Barish, Ph.D. Beginning psychotherapists face […]
Book Review: Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma
Book Review Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma by Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D. (2018) New York, NY: Routledge, 344 pages, $48.95 paperback Reviewed by Lisa Y. Livshin, Ed.D. […]
Cordially Invited: Refugee Family Discourse
What do you see? Is it New Tara, the plantation of the twenty first century? Crops of dreams and disasters lay juxtaposed as biproducts of influential forecasters. It makes you wonder what Hitler and Prophet […]
Book Review – Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Manual
Review By: Merdijana Kovacevic, M.A., and Elana Cewman, Ph.D. Resick, P. A., Monson, C. M., & Chard, K. M. (2016). Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A comprehensive manual. New York, NY: Guilford Press. ISBN 9781462533725 […]
Book Review—PTSD and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Book Review
Review By: Omewha Beaton, PhD Vasterling, J. J., Bryant, R. A., & Keane, T. M. (Eds.). (2012). PTSD and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. New York, NY: Guilford Press (308 pages) ISBN-13: 978-1462503384 ISBN-10: 1462503381 ($60 […]
Book Review—Baffled by Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones
Review By: Bianca Harper, DSW, LCSW University of Southern California Kahn, L. (2017). Baffled by love: Stories of the lasting impact of childhood trauma inflicted by loved ones. Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press. Working with […]