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Michael Heitt, PsyD

Therapy, Medication or Both (or Neither)?

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...

Forgiveness and Forgiving the Unforgivable

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...

Psychotherapy Helps Prevent Suicide

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...

Scarcity of Time

by Michael Heitt | Jan 2, 2014 | Coaching, Disruptive Professionals, human behavior, Psychotherapy

I often hear from my patients how busy they, their careers and their lives are.  Occasionally, their impatient, abrupt or frankly disruptive behaviors at home or at work are blamed upon simply not having the time to slow down to deal with others more gently or explain...

Review of a tutorial approach with disruptive physicians

by Michael Heitt | Sep 24, 2013 | benefits of therapy, Disruptive Professionals, human behavior, policies and procedures, Psychotherapy

My friend and colleague, Mike Plaut, has another paper out (actually it’s still in press) in the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy.  Mike’s writing is great – almost conversational – so I always enjoy reading his stuff.  In this paper he...

Psychotherapy is as good as (or better than) medication

by Michael Heitt | Sep 13, 2013 | medication, Psychotherapy

Yet another article was published recently that touted the positive effects of psychotherapy.  In this study the authors noted that psychotherapy was as effective as antidepressant medication at treating and preventing relapses of depressive episodes.  Of course the...
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