By Cenk Cokuslu, LP, NCPsyA “Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror.” ~…
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by Barbara Schapiro, Ph.D. One of the most salient features of the unconscious, according to Freud, is the absence of time. By that he is referring to the linearity of chronological time. In another sense, of course, the unconscious…
Findings from NIMH’s Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) project indicate that team-based coordinated specialty care (CSC) for first episode psychosis (FEP) results in more optimal prescribing of antipsychotics and fewer side effects when compared with typical community care. …
by Rachel Saks, Psy.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Chestnut Hill College. Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” This quote rings true as an essential aspect of human existence. Narratives are…
After elections, people often note unexpected outcomes and then complain that “the polls got it wrong.” After Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 presidential victory, the press gave us articles on “Why the Polls were such a Disaster,” on “4 Possible…
This week I interrupt our weekly focus on psychology’s big ideas and new findings to update three prior essays. Loss aversion in sports. A recent essay described how, in sports (as in other realms of life), our fear of…
Originally posted on April 26, 2016. The April 11, 2016 TIME cover story on “Porn and the Threat to Virility” was replete with anecdotes of young men’s real-life sexual responsiveness being depleted by excessive pornography consumption. Really? I…
A trainee tells her story of how NIMH/NIH training programs for members of underrepresented groups have nurtured her scientific career. Source: NIH
Frances Johnson talks about her experiences as a recipient of a NIMH Diversity Supplement grant and her summer stint in an NIMH intramural lab under NIH’s G-SOAR Program. Source: NIH
NIMH trainee Frances Johnson offers advice to students interested in scientific research. Source: NIH