Cognitive Therapy

Happiness Isn't Normal
Time - Before he was an accomplished psychologist, Steven Hayes was a mental patient. His first panic attack came on suddenly, in 1978, as he sat in a psychology-department meeting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was an assistant

We make our own misery
Swathmore College Phoenix - Over the past two years, Rachel Ackoff 07 has used her often insightful column Organic Politics to denote a particular aspect of the college experience unique to Swarthmore: our misery culture. Though it may not be as sunny to think

Depression: initial results help determine successful treatments
Xagena Medical News - A trial for depression has helped clinicians to track "real world" patients who became symptom-free and to identify those who were resistant to the initial treatment. Participants treated in both medical and specialty mental health care settings

More and More, Favored Psychotherapy Lets Bygones Be Bygones
New York Times - For most of the 20th century, therapists in America agreed on a single truth. To cure patients, it was necessary to explore and talk through the origins of their problems. In other words, they had to come to terms with the past to move forward in the

Pinching Out Sulfur
Scientific American - GAS SAVER: Four cylinders of this General Motors GEN IV V-8 engine shut down when they are not needed, thus boosting fuel economy. Despite rising fuel prices and fears of an oil crunch, Americans' lust for big vehicles with gas-gulping V-8 engines is

Health calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times - Send items for the health calendar at least two weeks in advance to Health Calendar, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802; fax to 251-0585, or e-mail them to Jason Sandford at jsandford@CITIZEN-TIMES.com . WNC BRAIN INJURY