American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Increasing Treatment Effectiveness
Today I share my musings on increasing mental health treatment effectiveness. Psychiatric treatment almost always entails long term management of [...]
Procrastination Follow-Up
This post is a follow-up to my January post on procrastination. So, without further delay, let’s begin. My ongoing project [...]
Biggest Reason for Ineffective Psychotherapy
Successful therapy requires balancing two opposing tasks: on the one hand, acceptance of the patient as they are, with their [...]
Overcoming Indecision
Modern life confronts us with many choice points and, at each, many options. Some choices are trivial, such as which [...]
The Deep Tragedy of Chronic Anxiety
In today's post, I highlight the loss of life engagement that occurs with chronic anxiety. In addition to the distress [...]
Never Succumb to Therapeutic Nihilism
An aspect of practicing psychiatry that often troubled me early in my career, and that arose periodically since then when [...]