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PsiAN Changing the Narrative about Therapy
In this Grand Rounds presentation, our chair and cofounder Linda Michaels presents our research results and recommendations at the Austen Riggs Center. Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship have been missing from, if not pushed out of, the public conversation on mental health treatment.
PsiAN Stands with Kaiser Permanente
In August of 2022, thousands of mental healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike. They are protesting ongoing and persistent problems in providing mental healthcare, staffing shortages, excessive workloads, and harmful restrictions on patient care. We support their efforts.
Petition Against CareDash.com
PsiAN penned a letter and petition with nearly 2,500 signatures to the Federal Trade Committee (FTC) and the Attorneys General of New York, Illinois, and California to object to the misleading business practices of CareDash.com (now defunct).
John Oliver Takes on Mental Health
The hit HBO show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, took on the complex issues of mental healthcare. Oliver’s producers interviewed our Chair and Co-Founder, Linda Michaels, and Advisors.
Why Choose Dynamic Psychotherapy?
Dr. Reidbord is a San Francisco psychiatrist discusses a less intense derivative called dynamic psychotherapy, and how it decreases sessions to once or twice a week and does away with the analytic couch.
PsiAN Acts to Preserve Wit v UBH
PsiAN joins the Kennedy Forum and other major mental health organizations in protesting the reversal of the Wit v UBH ruling.
Making Therapy Harder: When Corporate Forces Interfere with Therapy
Our profession must take a firm stand against interference with therapy wherever possible. Therapy-interfering behavior, which amounts to practicing without a license in many cases can exist for reasons having to do with improper motivations to frame therapy for the benefit of others and not the client, thereby harming the latter.
Embracing Your Inner Life Through Therapy
The Good, The Bad, and The Depraved— Embracing Your Inner Life Through Therapy. A look at the ongoing conversation between the therapist, the patient, and the “depraved character” can enable the patient to tolerate, accept, and perhaps even come to like, all of their internal characters.
PsiAN Pushes Back on No Surprises Act
PsiAN pushes back on No Surprises Act, and stands up for therapy and therapists.
I Never Thought I’d be Agreeing with Talkspace
PsiAN has concerns about Talkspace as a company, and the category of apps and asynchronous texting positioned as psychotherapy. Lionda Michaels talks about Kara Swisher’s interview of Oren Frank, CEO of Talkspace, on the July 22, 2021, in an episode of her podcast Sway.
PsiAN Featured in The New York Times
PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, was featured in an article in the New York Times in an important article on mental health parity, Teachers, Police, and Other Public Workers Left Out of Mental Health Coverage.
Opinion Piece Regarding TalkSpace
PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, wrote a Medium piece in response to Kara Swisher’s interview (appearing in the New York Times) with Oren Frank, CEO of Talkspace, a text therapy service.
PsiAN hosted a presentation on our original research
Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels hosted a special presentation for PsiAN members covering the large-scale original research study PsiAN conducted examining the general public’s attitudes, beliefs, and biases about therapy.
Faking Sincerity
Dr. Reidbord, a San Francisco psychiatrist, and editor of the Forum, discusses how psychotherapy training programs never advise students to “fake sincerity.” Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship are founded on genuine human connection, which can’t be duplicated with AI.
PsiAN Therapy Bot Article Featured in The New York Times
PsiAN was featured in The New York Times, in an article on therapy bots. PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, was quoted in a NYT article on Woebot, a therapy app that uses AI to deliver CBT-style interventions.
I Went to Therapy and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
Dayna Sharp, a relational psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, talks about how some therapy clients want souvenirs to remind them they’ve been in therapy. But what if focusing on souvenirs in therapy adds to the anxiety and fear, and distracts us from what’s really important—the relationship and the experience?
Lyra Health Limits Access to High-Quality Treatments
Irene Yancher, PsyD, a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist talks about how Lyra Health limits Access to high-quality treatments for their own benefit by raising money to connect employees of companies, such as Facebook, to mental health treatment. We cannot allow the financial interests of one startup to denigrate high-quality treatments and to limit patients to brief therapies that may not work for them.
Letter Published in The New York Times
In response to a New York Times article on bringing “retail therapy” to the masses, PsiAN’s co-chairs wrote a letter arguing that drugstore therapy is the wrong approach.
Is Your Doctor Going the Way of the Family Farm?
Keith R Wilson, a counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY, talks about how farming has changed into big business much like mental health. They say industrial medicine gives the public more access to better care, but he discussed how it reduces patients to quantifiable symptoms and healthcare workers into unthinking and unfeeling machinery.
Letter to the NICE Chronic Pain Guidelines Committee
In a letter to Nick Kosky, Chair of the NICE Chronic Pain Guideline Committee, PsiAN offered feedback and revisions to the organization’s Guidance Recommendations for pain management, based on a wealth of evidence about the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Primary Pain.