Sam Minsky: This sort of information helps the therapist bond with the patient and achieve treatment engagement. Clients come in feeling chaotic. They don’t understand their own behavior, and wonder if they are psychotic or maybe just bad. They’re relieved when someone can put what they’ve been experiencing in a rational framework, based on science and research. They start to think, “Maybe this...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the relative influence of childhood vs adulthood socioeconomic conditions on obesity risk is limited and equivocal. The objective of this study was to investigate associations of several indicators of mothers', fathers', and own socioeconomic status, and intergenerational social mobility, with body mass index (BMI) and weight change in young women. METHODS This populati...

logic, but through empathic or connected knowing. Connected knowing involves not just thinking in contextual particularity but feeling. It "entails 'generous thinking' and 'receptive rationality.'" 1 4 It requires "the deliberate, imaginative extension of one's understanding into positions that initially feel wrong or remote."115 Connected knowers use images not of invading another mind but of ...

Impulse-control disorders such as pathological gambling, sexual addiction, and compulsive shopping cause enormous suffering in people’s lives. The feeling-state theory of impulse-control disorders postulates that these disorders are created when intense positive feelings become linked with specific behaviors. The effect of this linkage is that, to generate the same feeling, the person compulsiv...