Personalized Depression Therapy

After formulating and signing “Melancholia: A Declaration of Independence,” an international cadre of psychiatrists recently launched a campaign to have the upcoming DSM-V recognize melancholia as a distinct syndrome rather than as a specifier for the mood disorders of major […]

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Maternal depression can worsen asthma symptoms in their children, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center published online in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Analyzing data from interviews with 262 mothers of African-American children with asthma – a population […]

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Over the millennia, the human mind became increasingly self-analytical. We, as human beings, became accustomed to sitting around and just thinking about things. We could plan our aggression, for instance, perhaps delaying it to a later time. Or, in situations […]

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It’s important to remember how a human being – in fact how any organism – learns. For me, there’s a very simple answer to this question: We learn by practicing. The more we do something, the more we practice it, […]

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It’s unthinkable – especially to a depressed person – that depression might actually be there to “protect” us. But that is exactly what my research suggests. Again, we must consider that, just as dominance and submission exist in us for […]

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Idon’t believe severe depression would be possible if it were not for another important ingredient – the feeling factor. Dominance and submission also have “feelings” attached to them. Whether we’re behaving aggressively, or behaving with a lack of self-confidence, a […]

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Depression is almost always the result of the negative “inner dialogues” we have with ourselves. An interesting pattern has emerged from my experimental and survey research into depression: Individuals rarely became severely depressed without engaging in highly submissive inner dialogues. […]

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Let me briefly discuss what I found to be among the most interesting findings of my depression research – the finding that ultimately resulted in the development of Personalized Depression Therapy. I began my research into depression by asking a […]

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One of the most fascinating areas of psychology is personality psychology. Psychologists have debated for years about exactly what defines a person’s personality. In particular, volumes of research have been written on the so called “trait” terms that we label […]

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