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Can Addicts and Alcoholics Benefit From Body Psychotherapy

February 24th, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Alcohol Addiction - (Comments Off)

I spent the last four days at a workshop centered around getting in touch with the sensations of the body to work through past traumas. The trauma could be an automobile accident, sexual abuse, physical abuse, an earthquake, and anything that has caused you deep emotional and sometimes physical pain. I started to wonder could …
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Are Media Psychotherapists Narcissistic?

February 15th, 2010 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Addiction - (10 Comments)

I have noticed, as it is getting closer to my appearance on Celebrity Rehab 3’s VH1 Vlog, I am feeling excited and ambivalent at the same time. I am asking myself what does that mean? Am I feeling this way because I wonder how my appearance will rate with my colleagues (other professionals in the …
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New Rules Define Implementation of Mental Health and Addiction Parity

February 9th, 2010 | Posted by in Addiction | Policy - (9 Comments)

It’s been a very long road, but the addiction and mental health fields have cleared another hurdle with the recent release of federal rules that define how mental health and addiction parity must be implemented. Interim final rules jointly issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Department …
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