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Michael Heitt, PsyD

Switching Psych Meds Often Doesn’t Help

by Michael Heitt | Dec 19, 2016 | depression, medication, placebo

A recently published meta-analysis of over 3000 studies suggested that switching antidepressants after the first drug doesn’t produce the desired results is not better than staying the course and/or exploring options other than trying a different drug.  This is...

Why Placebos Work

by Michael Heitt | Jul 19, 2016 | benefits of therapy, medication, placebo, Psychotherapy, side effects

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal summarizes some of the explanations about how we think placebos work.  If you read an earlier blog post I wrote about placebos, what I find so fascinating about all this is that even when subjects/patients are told they are...

Healthy Lifestyles

by Michael Heitt | Oct 31, 2011 | benefits of therapy, human behavior, medication, placebo

I have to admit that though I receive The American Psychologist (the main journal of the APA) monthly, I rarely get through more than one article per issue because the articles are so dense.  This month, there was a great article about Lifestyle and Mental Health. ...

Use of Antidepressants

by Michael Heitt | Oct 20, 2011 | benefits of therapy, medication, placebo, Psychotherapy

The CDC just put out a report about Americans’ use of antidepressants.  The paper has already gotten a bunch of press (Washington Post, CNN, Reuters to name a few).  Some of the key bullet points of the paper are: Eleven percent of Americans aged 12 years and...

Just do it

by Michael Heitt | Mar 17, 2011 | benefits of therapy, human behavior, placebo, Psychotherapy, self care

A new study was released (and summarized in the APA Monitor) about the use of placebo medications.  There have been many studies on the use of placebos, and they repeatedly demonstrate that when people are expecting a result to come from medication, it usually...

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