I believe that to develop an effective pain management plan one of the most difficult and crucial, emotional issues that must be resolved is the grief and loss of your health and/or prior level of functioning. Obtaining support to work through a painful grieving process improves your chances of a successful treatment outcome with chronic [...]

Greetings to You in 2010! We begin the New Year with our 8th edition and a plan for expanded services.  We will begin offering our members more exposure with the addition of Member Profile Articles.  Members may submit articles for a Member Profile which will be featured on the website. In this 500 word article [...]

For years the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Parity Act was just a dream. The law itself passed in 2008, but just two weeks ago it actually went into effect. Exactly what this means for our field has yet to take shape but the idea that mental health problems are finally understood to have the [...]

Storytellers capture the essence of a happening, distill wisdom and pass it on to others.  I am a storyteller and the tale I tell is about the movement from powerlessness and want to choices and empowerment. When a child is growing up in a family where people are addicted to alcohol, prescription medicine, nicotine and [...]

Introduction: Early recovery is a tricky time.  Early success, feeling fragile. Going one day at a time, often for the first time. Relapse lurking at the gates of a new sobriety. The senses are finally being thawed; the mind is beginning to clear.  Knowledge begins to pour in; new skills are learned.  And beneath this [...]

Wilhelm Reich was a student of Freud, who departed from psychoanalysis and proposed a different treatment approach called “Psychiatric Orgone Therapy.” Many of Freud’s disciples departed in different ways from Freud. Most moved away from certain aspect of Freudian theories, while elaborating on other aspects. Jung, for example, elaborated on the theory of unconscious and [...]

For the past year, health care reform has dominated the headlines and monopolized the time of Congress and the White House.  Not since 9/11 has all of Washington been singularly focused on one issue. While the legislation going to conference between the House and Senate is over 1,900 pages, there are parts that apply to [...]