Category: psychotherapy

  • The 45-minute hour

    When scheduling a new patient, I am often asked how long my sessions run.  I welcome this question as it potentially indicates that this prospective patient values her time and mine.  My response is that when I provide psychotherapy, I schedule “45-minute hours.”  There was an interesting Op-Ed in the New York Times about the…

  • Is chronic pain “all in your head?”

    The one thing that frustrates a sufferer of chronic pain more than the pain she experiences is hearing that the pain is “all in [her] head.”  A new study, recently published in the Journal of Pain and reported upon in the LA Times, noted that there really are clear and demonstrable differences in the brains of…