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...series of experiments, for instance, Jeffrey Schwartz and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can quiet activity in the circuit that underlies obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), just as drugs do. Schwartz had become intrigued with the therapeutic potential of mindfulness meditation, the Buddhist practice of observing one's inner experiences as if they were happening to someone else...
That's because the theory behind D-cycloserine's action is totally consistent with old-fashioned talk therapy, and especially with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), currently the most effective nondrug technique dealing with phobias, PTSD and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The idea behind CBT--which first appeared in the 1950s, long before neuroscience could explain such things--is that the patient examines upsetting ideas and consciously assigns new, more positive associations to them. Even old-fashioned Freudian psychotherapy might fit in with this model. By dredging up forgotten memories, it may achieve the same thing, albeit in a much less efficient...
...study might help. Dr. Sabine Wilhelm, associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic and Research Unit at Mass. General Hospital, is currently recruiting subjects for the second phase of a clinical study testing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating body dismorphic disorder (BDD). People with BDD often obsess over their physical appearance to an unhealthy extreme. Unlike eating disorders, which show a disproportionate incidence among women, BDD is evenly represented between the genders. According to Wilhelm, recent studies have found that a whopping four to five...
...making the experimental use of antipsychotics seem like the only responsible course. As executive director of the University of Melbourne?affiliated Orygen Youth Health, he sees patients aged 15 to 24 whose symptoms may include mild paranoia and social impairment. Fish oil and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are sound first-up treatments, he says, but if they don't work it's unacceptable to wait for patients to slide into madness, though it's impossible to predict with certainty which ones will. "You've got to do something," McGorry says, meaning consider adding a neuroleptic drug to the treatment...
...psychotherapy incorporated these ideas into modern psychology and inspired the development of practical methods of implementing them. The result is that technologies now exist to help people change their patterns of thought and the emotions and behavior that derive from them. (By "technologies," I mean therapeutic strategies like CBT, not the use of devices.) Moreover, these new forms of psychotherapy are effective--as effective as the latest psychiatric drugs in many studies--and they work quickly, not requiring the commitments of time and money that older forms of talk therapy...