Here’s a parlor game for psychologists… and the rest of us. Try to pick a popular song that captures the essence of a given type of therapy. Freudian psychotherapy focuses on the effect of your parents on mental health, just like when Loggins and Messina...
Not uncommonly, one member of a couple … will see me in the office with a concern about the sexual aspects of their relationship. Of course many things can go wrong when it comes to sex. We all know about erectile dysfunction since ever since the invention and...
In the old days, circa 1990, there were three … main disorders of mood: anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder (also called manic-depressive illness). Bipolar disorder was the most exciting of the three. A patient might rip off his clothes and run naked...
Wow, this is an embarrassing article to … write. Oh, I don’t mean that writing an article on the human vagina is embarrassing. After all, as a physician, I deal with this organ and its associated diseases on a regular basis. No, the article is embarrassing to...
If you were to describe yourself as … “painfully shy,” probably the last job you’d want is going on national TV every night, telling jokes and interviewing people you don’t know. But such is the case for David Letterman. Other famous people, brilliant on stage...
Recently, I had lunch with a psychiatry colleague who… is setting up a new group practice near Lake Union. We spent about an hour discussing treatment approaches and practice philosophy. He is an academic psychiatrist who has published research on improving the...
