by Michael Heitt | Nov 18, 2015 | benefits of therapy, brain, human behavior, Psychotherapy
I teach a great professional development and clinical consultation class at Loyola University Maryland. Yesterday morning my doctoral students and I had a great discussion about what makes psychotherapy work (among some other very stimulating discussions). This...
by Michael Heitt | Jun 30, 2015 | benefits of therapy, medication, Psychotherapy, side effects
I stumbled upon this brief piece in the Huffington Post about when patients should consider doing psychotherapy, trying medication, doing both at the same time or not doing anything at all. I liked this article because it was short and to the point while giving some...
by Michael Heitt | Jun 24, 2015 | benefits of therapy, Psychotherapy, Uncategorized
Over the years of doing psychotherapy with individuals and couples I have often observed a thematic trend from patient to patient. Sometimes I get a bunch of calls about relationship problems or several existing patients will bring up similar issues in the same week...
by Michael Heitt | Nov 25, 2014 | medication, Psychotherapy, suicide
An article was recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry and nicely summarized in Forbes describing the benefits of even short-term psychotherapy on repeated suicide attempts and suicide related deaths. Not surprisingly, the data suggest that talk therapy serves to...
by Michael Heitt | Sep 10, 2014 | benefits of therapy, exercise, medication, self care
Research has shown that when depressed people exercise 3-5 times per week for 45-60 minutes per session and achieve a heart rate of 50-85% of their max heart rate, the exercise is as effective, if not more effective, than medication. The Atlantic published a nice...
