With God As My Shrink: More Americans are seeking religious counselors rather than signing up for plain old psychotherapy—and a booming industry has emerged to answer their prayers. But can faith-based counseling heal the mind as well as the soul? [Psychology Today]
Darkness Visible: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath, Yukio Mishima, Primo Levi—in 1986, William Styron almost joined the long list of writers who have committed suicide. He spiraled down into a long and frightening bout with what is commonly known as depression. Now he has chosen to write a searing account of his journey through darkness back to the light. [Vanity Fair]
Placebo v. Placebo: Price and our sense of value add another dimension to the placebo question. [Popsci]
Psychotherapy for All: An Experiment: The Goa program, financed by the Wellcome Trust, is not the first using nonmedical workers to treat mental illness, but it is the largest. Almost 2,000 patients have been treated. Dr. Patel is conducting a randomized clinical trial to see whether the strategy works, the first time such a careful study has been run in the developing world. [NYT]
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