Along with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy is one of the two most used therapies to treat phobias. Psychodynamic therapy and CBT appear very similar on the surface. Both therapies rely on sessions with trained therapists and the connection that forms between patient and therapist over the course of the therapy. Moreover, both types of therapies are talk based […]

When most people hear the word “psychotherapy”, they think of hour long sessions with a therapist that can go on for months and months. There is good basis for these assumptions as psychotherapy has taken this form for over one hundred years. Many therapists use this model of sessions that go on for a very long duration of time due […]

There are a lot of treatments for phobias, both typical phobias and more uncommon phobias. Exposure therapy is a very common method of treating phobias, specifically phobias that center around one thing or one situation. Phobias commonly treated with exposure therapy include arachnophobia (fear of spiders), most other animal or insect fears, glossophobia (fear of public speaking), and other social […]

Merriam Webster defines a phobia as “an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation” (Merriam-Webster). However, of the millions of “illogical” phobias out there, some are much more common than others. One approximation, states that 31.1% of adults in the United States have, or have had at some point in their lives, […]

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Immigration may well be the hottest issue in the United States today. Some people want to build physical walls to keep illegal immigrants out. Others want to welcome them with open arms. However, the issue of state and local police helping or hindering ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents’ agendas has implications far beyond how many immigrants get deported. One […]