It has been more than a year since I last released a guided meditation. In 2024 this will change and I will release more professional recorded guided meditations. These meditations will of course, be available for all paying Patreon members at no extra... - https://vero.co/seb_tmg/ZmPk-XDRN59T3PMCcH77ZXQM
I joined the BBC World service podcast 'The Global Story' to talk about the current world situation regarding ketamine in the wake of Matthew Perry's passing
Today in Labor History December 15, 1973: The American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In the 1950s and 1960s, some therapists used aversion therapy to "cure" male homosexuality. Like in Anthony Burgess’s, “A Clockwork Orange,” they would show patients pictures of naked men while giving them electric shocks or drugs to make them puke. In the 1973 vote, 5,854 members voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM, while 3,810 voted to retain it. In a compromise, they agreed to remove homosexuality from the DSM, but replaced it with "sexual orientation disturbance" for people "in conflict with" their sexual orientation. They did not completely remove homosexuality from the DSM until 1987.
The mastodon-native version will hopefully be up later this week!
Also, a very big thanks to @Impossible_PhD for not only publishing both of these intimate pieces on gender trauma on her own blog, but also for editing and helping me refine these pieces. You're amazing and wonderful Doc! 💖
Iowa Senate File 538- gender transition procedures related to minors strips providers of Medicaid funding from Sept 18 forward and doesn't allow Medicaid to be used by clients for gender affirming treatment. If a counselor has a transgender client, and has used the gender dysphoria code and many others (7 pages of ICD codes) then they will be retroactively stripped of funding. I am so angry for clients and for providers. As a clinician, I feel so mad that states are telling transgender youth in lower SES that they can't be who they truly are, and now they can't even talk to a counselor. I just can't. @socialwork@Email2TootBot#SocialWork#psych#psychology#iowa#lgbtqia#transgender#transgenderrights#counseling#counselor#therapist#therapy
A virtual reality program conducted at home is shown in a clinical trial to relieve chronic lower back pain intensity and improve daily living more than a sham V.R. program.
Electric Pulses Induce Lung Cancer Immune Response
Results of a clinical trial show a lung cancer therapy using highly focused pulses with electrical energy show signs of immune responses that can treat the patients' tumors.
"The traditional focus of his field, Bryant said, could be oversimplified as 'fixing the individual': treating patients as separate entities working on their personal growth. Climate change, by contrast, was a species-wide problem, a profound and constant reminder of how deeply intertwined we all are in complex systems ... that are much bigger than us."