Smartphones, Social Media, Depression & Suicide

In the hot-off-the-presses September, 2017, issue of The Atlantic Monthly, psychologist Jean Twenge has an article entitled, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation” describing the rapidly deteriorating mental health of today’s adolescents. She draws on extensive research data to make the connection between the use of technology and the rising rates of anxiety and depression. This… Read More

Trying to Predict Suicide? Good Luck with That…

One of the toughest challenges of clinical practice, and certainly the most consequential of them for literally being about “life and death,”  is dealing with the potential or actual suicide of a client.  I run case consultation groups for those clinicians who have been through my 100 Hour Training in Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy,… Read More