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abstracts of articles listed in MedLine, together with ordering information for articles.
Enter keywords.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
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On-Line
Psychology & Clinical Journals American
Journal of Psychotherapy
Devoted to the advancement of psychotherapy and to
the continuation of discussions, scientific writings, clinical impressions, and articles
of special interest to psychotherapists.
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URL: http://www.ajp.org
Psychiatric Times
One of the better on-line e-journals. Provides four or five feature
articles per month, and an opportunity to view the previous issue.
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URL: http://www.mhsource.com/psychiatrictimes.html
Mental Health Source Exclusives
Features a fine collection of columns by practicing psychiatrists and psychologists: Against
the Grain by David Kaiser, M.D. ; Chance Thoughts by Sue Chance, M.D. ; Perspectives
by Peter D. Kramer, M.D. ; and Psychiatry and Society by Keith Ablow, M.D. These
people all have interesting perspectives.
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URL: http://www.mhsource.com/exclusive.html
Harvard
Mental Health Letter
This sparse, but useful site includes the table of contents and one feature article
per month from the Harvard Mental Health Letter. In March 1997, the feature
article provided an insightful review of autism, indicating that a monthly stop
would be well worthwhile.
The link below is to the main Harvard Health Publications page.
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URL: http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/Mental/.index.html
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The
Effectiveness of Psychotherapy The
Consumer Reports Study
Martin E. P. Seligman
University of Pennsylvania
This is an article discussing a Consumer Reports (1995, November) article which concluded
that patients benefited very substantially from psychotherapy, that long-term treatment
did considerably better than short-term treatment, and that psychotherapy alone did not
differ in effectiveness from medication plus psychotherapy. CR also found that no specific
mode of psychotherapy did better than any other for any disorder; psychologists,
psychiatrists, and social workers did not differ in their effectiveness as treaters; and
all did better than marriage counselors and long-term family doctoring. Patients whose
length of therapy or choice of therapist was limited by insurance or managed care did
worse. The methodological virtues and drawbacks of this large-scale survey are
examined and contrasted by the author with the more traditional efficacy study, in which
patients are randomized into a manualized, fixed duration treatment or into control
groups. Seligman concludes that the Consumer Reports survey complements the
efficacy method, and that the best features of these two methods can be combined into a
more ideal method that will best provide empirical validation of psychotherapy.
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URL: http://www.cmhc.com/articles/seligm.htm
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Mental Health Net & Reading Room Archives: A
growing collection of about 60 miscellaneous articles on mental health topics from the
e-journal Perspectives (which is easily linked to from this site). These articles
stress disorders such as schizophrenia, addiction, anxiety and panic disorders, and
Alzheimer's disease.
The parent site, Mental Health Net, at http://www.cmhc.com/mhn.htm
is a great source of links to specialized areas and is the home to the MedLine search
mirror (see above). Professional Resources are listed at http://www.cmhc.com/prof.htm . However, some of
the reviews appear to be in need of revision and update; not surprising, given the huge
number of them.
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URL: http://www.cmhc.com/archives/readmnu.htm
Mental Health Net Search Engine
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Transpersonal
Psychology
Transpersonal psychology, often called "fourth force" psychology, is
concerned with questions of value, meaning, purpose, and spirit, while studying human
beings in their complex familial, social, ecological, global, and even cosmic contexts. It
is a psychological discipline that focuses on the spiritual aspects of suffering, healing
and growth and its best-known popular manifestation is Daniel Goleman's bestseller Emotional
Intelligence.
A highly visible location on the Web is the Association
for Transpersonal Psychology.
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
The Mind's Eye
The "Mind's Eye," published by the Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology, is a collection of writings and images "which explore how spirituality
and psychology come together, and overlap, yielding a new field of exploration drawing
from the scientific understandings of psychology as well as the deep yearnings of the soul
and the quest of the spirit." A recent issue featured poetry and literature as well
as the following clinical articles:
- William Braud, PhD: "Thoughts on Research and Clinical Practice"
- Melissa Beacham: "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: God, Spiritual
Development and Recovery from Childhood Trauma"
- Michael S. Hutton: "Trees as Spiritual Teachers"
The site hasn't been updated in a while, however.
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URL: http://www.tmn.com/itp/mindseye.html
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Fast
Reconstructive Therapy On-Line This is the
home page of the Family Psychiatric Center in Omaha, Nebraska and is designed to provide
information useful in rapid treatment of emotional problems that are not associated with
major disorders. There are disclaimers warning people who are "suffering from a
severe psychiatric disorder" not to use information on the site without
supervision by a mental health professional and continual reminders that the approach used
here is empirically based.
Based upon twenty years of treatment experience, the center uses
an "interpersonal orientation" and "five basic questions" to help
reduce "stress and mental dysfunction." These questions are "designed
to expose the (often denied) impact that others have had on the patient and on the
formation of each one of his/her emotional traits," and have been refined from
the use of up to one hundred similar questions.
The Five Questions Are:
- Where have I had this feeling?
- Who makes me feel this way?
- Who, in my place, would be feeling this way?
- What else is being lumped in together (what else is wrong)?
- What is not wrong (count as many blessings as possible every
day )
They are said to be effective in relieving "high levels
of stress, tension, guilt, frustration, loneliness, sadness, intimidation, anxiety,
intrapsychic disorganization, indecisiveness, low self esteem, anger, etc., especially
when these feelings have been or are an overreaction to an average interpersonal situation
and are not chronic, scrambled, compounded, or a response to a real life tragedy or to an
ongoing emotional duress." They are also used by the clinic in relieving
cravings.
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Albert
Ellis Institute Albert Ellis's controversial
REBT (rational-emotive belief therapy) is perhaps best reserved for consideration by those
who are having minor problems accepting change. It primarily involves the vigorous
disputing of "irrational" beliefs using a question-answer technique, and
replacing them with "healthy" beliefs, which are helpfully provided by Ellis.
Despite the charming (and apparently persuasive) simplicity of this therapy, it is still
worth a look, and this site provides a new "Featured Essay" by Ellis or one of
his minions every month. The FAQ section helpfully provides distillations of the major
criticisms of REBT. Whether or not the questions are answered satisfactorily depends upon
the reader's point of view, of course.
Like any controversial "self-help" therapy that involves operant
conditioning, the consumer is wise to do some investigating before jumping in.
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