Jan 19, 2013
Today, I'm re-posting directly a couple of posts I've recently received from other sources, due to their implications for effective and safe treatment -- see my previous post:
Following up from my recent posts...
Jan 18, 2013
My apologies for this later than usual post -- I was let down by my "greed" for a "great deal" -- SurDoc was offering 100Gb of Cloud storage free for the first 12 months. Unfortunately, they failed to deliver on...
Jan 12, 2013
Thirty years ago (and probably longer, but memory fails me!) when I first studied Neuropsychology, psychologists had little hope for people's continued recovery from brain damage beyond the initial three years...
Jan 5, 2013
For today's post, I wish to re-visit "the past", the past of a few years ago, and about a month ago.
Topics I wish to briefly discuss today include
(i) changes and finalisation of changes to the American...
Jan 4, 2013
Schmid et al (2013) [LINK] have called into question whether or not it is desirable for Developmental Trauma Disorder -- a "childhood" disorder I've spoken about often on my website, as my weinsite is...
Jan 3, 2013
It has long, and naturally, been thought that the reason individuals differ in their response to potentially traumatising experiences lies in different individuals different genetic makeup. However, the search...
Jan 2, 2013
In a new paper (accepted for publication as recently as December 12, 2012) , Laura Leenarts and colleagues from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, De Bascule,...
Jan 1, 2013
Insight-oriented psychotherapy -- psychotherapy based on the belief that if you can truly "understand yourself", then one has the basic requirements to recover from disabling forms of psychological distress. Insight...
Dec 29, 2012
Season's Greetings, and best wishes for a happy and safe holiday period to all my readers. Thanks for being with me during 2012, and hoping 2013 brings renewed happiness and success for you in all of your...
Dec 21, 2012
Tragically, some who are the victims of childhood maltreatment go on to develop offending behaviour themselves. This was noted over a decade ago, by Shields and Ciccheti (1998) [LINK] who noted that being the victim...