April 2014 - Session NotesSession Notes

How hallucinogenic experiences can treat anxiety.
April 30, 2014 Comments Off on How hallucinogenic experiences can treat anxiety.

The Atlantic –

Dr. Ross and his team report that the vast majority of their patients have exhibited an immediate and sustained reduction in anxiety. Consistent with similar studies involving psilocybin, approximately three-fourths of the participants rate their experience with the drug as being one of the top five most significant events of their lives.

I asked Dr. Ross how a medication is taken only once can have such an enduring effect.
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Desperately avoiding the friend-zone?
April 29, 2014 Comments Off on Desperately avoiding the friend-zone?

Psych Central

There Are 3 Stages in Romantic Relationships

Dating

Relating

Mating

Most couples get the order wrong. Lots of couples just dive headlong into relating-working out their issues and differences.
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How to date a good man.
April 26, 2014 Comments Off on How to date a good man.

Good Men Project

A good man, as the saying goes, is hard to find. Well, not really. There are millions of good men out there. Millions. Good men whose intentions are honourable. Good men whose behaviour towards women is kind and respectful. Good men who appreciate love and value commitment. Good men who hew to a code of morality and decent conduct in their personal and professional lives. Good men who don’t need to be bad boys to prove themselves.
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Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction
April 25, 2014 Comments Off on Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction

Society tells those struggling with addiction too, “Just quit it.”

It sounds so logical and so simple to those uttering the words — and every addict agrees with the plan and even pulls it off for short periods of time.

Then religion comes alongside and delivers what we believe is a more compassionate message: “With the help of Christ (And a little guilt — er, accountability — from your Promise Keepers group) just quit it.”
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For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!
April 23, 2014 Comments Off on For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!

Huffington Post –

That distinction became very important in determining which relationships survived. At the end of five years, 43 percent of couples who had revealed the infidelity were divorced compared to 80 percent of the couples whose infidelity was kept secret.

“The current results suggest that many revealed infidelity couples were able to sustain the gains made during treatment and preserve the integrity of the relationship,” the researchers explained.
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Perhaps you’re not depressed enough?
April 20, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps you’re not depressed enough?

Motherboard

Research out Thursday from a team based at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City might not suggest a cure in its purest sense, but it offers something much closer to that than previously obtained: full alleviation, at least in mouse models (which are pretty good models for this sort of thing). What the authors describe in their study is a new and very unexpected target mechanism-the mechanism by which the brain corrects depression on its own in healthy humans or, more specifically, the way it naturally responds to stress.
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Simple exercises to improve male, “Staying power.”
April 19, 2014 Comments Off on Simple exercises to improve male, “Staying power.”

Drugs.com –

Premature ejaculation — defined as occurring within one minute — affects many men at some point in their lives. Although different treatments exist, some men don’t respond to any of them.

This study included 40 men, aged 19 to 46, with lifelong premature ejaculation who had tried different treatments — including creams, antidepressants and behavioural therapy — without success.
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Sexual frequency and duration: Country rankings.
April 18, 2014 Comments Off on Sexual frequency and duration: Country rankings.

Sploid

This graphic really does speak for itself; though it’s still worth saying: Even in Australia (currently the best in the entire world), there are still a whole lot of REALLY unsatisfied women putting up with barely cursory sex…
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Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement
April 17, 2014 Comments Off on Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

Daily Beast

The scandal around Phillips is just the latest in a long line of ugly shocks to the far Christian right that threatens to destabilize and possibly capsize the community. As The Wire reported in early March, Bill Gothard, the leader of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, resigned his position in the wake of a series of accusations of alleged sexual abuse from dozens of women in the organization.
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Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.
April 16, 2014 Comments Off on Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.

PsychCentral

Changing supply does little to change demand when it comes to drugs of abuse. Why? Because addiction is a chronic brain disease that changes the function and structure of the brain, and because people often use drugs to cope with painful emotions. Neither of these problems is cured by making drugs less available.
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