Psychological Therapies

Ukrainian refugee Lana Lisetska has forgiven herself for "being saved" and is rebuilding her life thanks to a programme that tackles the often overlooked mental health struggles of people fleeing the war.

Facebook and Instagram on Friday said they are banning content that promotes "conversion therapy," which is based on the unfounded notion that gays can change their sexual orientation through psychological or spiritual intervention.

Opting for Virtual Reality (VR) based psychological therapy can help you reduce acrophobia or the fear of heights. Study says, VR sessions that challenged the fears of people have made them feel safer about their fear than they thought.

Have you been taking medications for your emotional distress and depression? There is a better way to deal with it!

A distinct focus on social and occupational skills is of the utmost importance. A mix of behavioural and psychological therapies can help make the journey easier.

Over the last 3 centuries, researchers have tried to understand why stammering occurs and what can be done to 'cure' it. Up until the 19th century, the causes were attributed to everything from the devil upwards.

Exercises and/or psychological therapies may work better than medications for patients suffering from cancer-related fatigue. So yoga, walking, running or cycling could help.

Men prefer quick fixes whereas women prefer talking about their feelings during therapy to battle depression. According to this new study, men apparently commit suicide at three to four the rate in comparison to women, and yet men don't seek psychological help as much as women.

While doctors have known for some time that psychological therapy can reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome -- a gastrointestinal disorder -- in the short term, a new study has found that the benefits can extend up to one year after the completion of the therapy.

Music therapy can increase the effectiveness of standard rehabilitation that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other respiratory disorders receive, a new study has found.

Europe's migrant crisis is forcing the advancement of new psychological therapies that go beyond existing treatments to help victims not of one traumatic event, but of multiple traumas such as rape, war and torture.

A Beijing court on Friday ordered a psychological clinic to pay compensation to a homosexual man for administering electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual, an unprecedented ruling on so-called conversion therapy.

Republicans in the deeply conservative and fiercely independent state of Texas are pushing a discredited psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay people straight.

Lindsay Lohan has accepted a plea deal in a misdemeanour car crash case that includes 90 days in a rehabilitation facility.

Regular exercise helps to improve the quality of life for breast cancer survivors.

Ukrainian refugee Lana Lisetska has forgiven herself for "being saved" and is rebuilding her life thanks to a programme that tackles the often overlooked mental health struggles of people fleeing the war.

Facebook and Instagram on Friday said they are banning content that promotes "conversion therapy," which is based on the unfounded notion that gays can change their sexual orientation through psychological or spiritual intervention.

Opting for Virtual Reality (VR) based psychological therapy can help you reduce acrophobia or the fear of heights. Study says, VR sessions that challenged the fears of people have made them feel safer about their fear than they thought.

Have you been taking medications for your emotional distress and depression? There is a better way to deal with it!

A distinct focus on social and occupational skills is of the utmost importance. A mix of behavioural and psychological therapies can help make the journey easier.

Over the last 3 centuries, researchers have tried to understand why stammering occurs and what can be done to 'cure' it. Up until the 19th century, the causes were attributed to everything from the devil upwards.

Exercises and/or psychological therapies may work better than medications for patients suffering from cancer-related fatigue. So yoga, walking, running or cycling could help.

Men prefer quick fixes whereas women prefer talking about their feelings during therapy to battle depression. According to this new study, men apparently commit suicide at three to four the rate in comparison to women, and yet men don't seek psychological help as much as women.

While doctors have known for some time that psychological therapy can reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome -- a gastrointestinal disorder -- in the short term, a new study has found that the benefits can extend up to one year after the completion of the therapy.

Music therapy can increase the effectiveness of standard rehabilitation that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other respiratory disorders receive, a new study has found.

Europe's migrant crisis is forcing the advancement of new psychological therapies that go beyond existing treatments to help victims not of one traumatic event, but of multiple traumas such as rape, war and torture.

A Beijing court on Friday ordered a psychological clinic to pay compensation to a homosexual man for administering electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual, an unprecedented ruling on so-called conversion therapy.

Republicans in the deeply conservative and fiercely independent state of Texas are pushing a discredited psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay people straight.

Lindsay Lohan has accepted a plea deal in a misdemeanour car crash case that includes 90 days in a rehabilitation facility.

Regular exercise helps to improve the quality of life for breast cancer survivors.