A blog about human brains and behavior for students of psychology.
As a mental health blogger, I don’t have to think twice over pouring my heart out about my own mental health challenges. But therapists are in a more delicate position. On one hand, therapists might want to establish a sense
Therapists are, of course, human, and one of the things about being human is that we sometimes misread other people’s emotions. Psychologists refer to the ability to know what other people are feeling as empathic accuracy. Having high empathic accuracy
Mental health treatment, like everything else, is increasingly going online. People are seeking out more information about mental health on the internet, and researchers are experimenting with new types of therapy that can be done virtually. Those darn millennials, wanting
All good things must come to an end, and that includes psychotherapy. For some people, psychotherapy comes to an end quite quickly. A recent study by researchers from Portugal, Brazil and Israel looked at what happens to people who drop
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the US, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. And most of us have known a loved one, friend or acquaintance impacted by the disease. But depression can
