In which one of my students looks at what Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) actually is, and whether the media gets it right or not.
Category Mental Health
In which one of my students examines the belief that the moon can influence how people act and think.
In which I outline some course assignments that will ensure lots of excellent reading over the next few months here on GPS.
In which the Secular Therapy Project reaches 2000 clients in the first year of operation!
After the recent, devastating tornadoes that struck central Oklahoma this week, killing dozens, injuring hundreds, and causing billions in property…
Earlier today, Moore and south Oklahoma City were hit with an absolutely devastating tornado that appears as if it will eclipse the infamous May 3rd, 1999 storms as the worst to ever hit Oklahoma. While tornadoes are not exactly rare in Oklahoma (we have more per square mile than anywhere else on earth), this particular one destroyed multiple schools and carved it’s way right through a major city.
In exciting news, I just published two short texts on psychopathology. One is on anxiety disorders, while the other focuses on mood disorders. Both are now available for the Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Kobo, and in paperback (links below).
It should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I a) am a clinical psychologist and b) despise pseudoscientific nonsense. As such, when I come across woo in my field, I feel a special fire begin to burn deep inside me and it’s not because I missed taking my Pepcid. No, it’s from having the field I have devoted the past 16 years of my life to dragged through the mud and made to look silly by those who are not actually practicing evidence-based psychology.
I’ve written about Dr Oz before (here and here) and it’s obvious that I think he’s a dangerous purveyor of…
The placebo effect is one of the most powerful, and yet most mysterious, effects seen in medicine and health fields. …