Kevin Keenan PhD

Source: The Effectiveness of Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorders: A Meta-Analysis | American Journal of Psychiatry

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Elevated Reward Response Linked to Weight Gain.

This research suggests an explanation for why we want more and how we are unsatisfied when we get it. It suggests that anything we find rewarding or pleasurable, if pursued to excess , untimely leads to a desensitization to that reward or pleasure. This loss of the capacity for feeling pleasure with the previously rewarding activity, may prompt us to try even harder to get more, paradoxically decreasing our ability to feel more pleasure from that experience. There is wisdom in the old adage “moderation in all things.”

The Transformative Power of Emotional Understanding | Psychology Today.

Early in the treatment, whenever the patient began to remember and describe the sexual abuse, or to recount analogously invasive experiences in her current life, she would display emotional reactions that consisted of two distinctive parts, both of which seemed entirely bodily. One was a trembling in her arms and upper torso, which sometimes escalated into violent shaking. The other was an intense flushing of her face….
By bringing the emotional experience into language within a holding context of human understanding,  a sense of being can be born, restored, or consolidated

The Art of Distraction – NYTimes.com.

It is said that distractions are too easy to come by now that most writers use computers, though it’s just as convenient to flee through the mind’s window into fantasy. In the end, a person requires a method. He must be able to distinguish between creative and destructive distractions by the sort of taste they leave, whether they feel depleting or fulfilling. And this can work only if he is, as much as possible, in good communication with himself — if he is, as it were, on his own side, caring for himself imaginatively, an artist of his own life.

Visit the PA Psychological Association’s Ethics Education Station!

Large numbers of doctors receive payments from drug and device companies every year — sometimes into the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars — in exchange for providing advice and giving lectures. Analyses by The New York Times and others have found that about a quarter of doctors take cash payments from drug or device makers and that nearly two-thirds accept routine gifts of food, including lunch for staff members and dinner for themselves. The Times has found that doctors who take money from drug makers often practice medicine differently from those who do not and that they are more willing to prescribe drugs in risky and unapproved ways, such as prescribing powerful antipsychotic medicines for children.

via U.S. to Tell Drug Makers to Disclose Payments to Doctors – NYTimes.com.

Anyone who has ever dieted knows that lost pounds often return, and most of us assume the reason is a lack of discipline or a failure of willpower. But Proietto suspected that there was more to it, and he decided to take a closer look at the biological state of the body after weight loss. Beginning in 2009, he and his team recruited 50 obese men and women.  The Fat Trap – NYTimes.com.