State of Mind: Anxiety Disorders
Psychotherapy is particularly important in breaking the cycle of anxiety disorders, whether they take the form of panic attacks or eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa. Michael Strober, Director of the Eating Disorders Program at UCLA ...
State of Mind: Insurance Limitations Hamper Effective Treatment of Depression
Matching patients with the appropriate anti-depressant, and getting them to stay with it long enough for it to work involves the support of psychotherapy as well as medication. Too often insurance plans severely limit coverage for conditions related...
Psychotherapy Options
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about the range of psychotherapies that are available, including traditional psychoanalysis, as well as briefer, structured psychotherapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and in...
Getting It Together: Does Psychotherapy Really Work?
People with psychological disorders do get better, and they tend to attribute their improvement to the therapy, but the question is would they have gotten better with no treatment at all. The key is research, which is difficult given confidentiality...
Decision To Stop Treating Patients, The
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about her decision to stop seeing patients after her book was published and she went public about her illness. "I had written a very personal book," Dr. Jamison says, "and I felt very str...
Helping Those In Need
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison explains that getting someone with a psychiatric disorder into treatment is very hard, and keeping them there can be even harder. A related challenge, Dr. Jamison notes, is convincing patients ...
Depression: Available Treatments
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about treatments available to treat depression. In general, Dr. Leuchter explains, there is a two-pronged approach used, consisting of psychotherapy, coupled with medication.
Progress in Neuroscience
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about the progress that's been made in better understanding and treating bipolar illness in the years since she and co-author Fred Goodwin wrote their textbook. "I would say sixty to seve...
Depression or Anxiety?
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about the overlap between anxiety and depression, noting that, "...it's hard to know where one ends and the other begins."