Psychological Disorders

False Memories - A Clinician's Perspective
Sharing the exploration of a personal history is a sacred trust. It requires a therapist to suspend judgment and to listen attentively to the story and to the emotions between the lines of the story, all the while trying to divine the connections between past experience and present day struggle. It requires sensitivity both to the emotional needs of the person reaching out with his or her story and to the powerful influence that the listener can have upon how the story unfolds.

MANAGING DEPRESSION
In a recent interview, journalist Andrew Denton asked the academic and writer Germaine Greer what wisdom she had gained from life. Greer responded: “You have to actually work at being a happy person. I am subject to depressions and I have my own way of dealing with them. I fast and stay out of bed until I feel as though I'm in control again, but it's a risky procedure. Not everybody can do that."

AN INTRODUCTION TO ANXIETY
There are many different types of anxiety disorders. They may develop from a complex set of factors including genetics, brain chemistry, personality and life events.