J.D. Finkelstein, Author at Public Seminar

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Can You Text Your Way to Mental Health?

A New Approach to Therapy Raises Concerns Among Professionals

November 9, 2016 • by J.D. Finkelstein

Visiting the website for a popular app which advertises confidential, anonymous, 24/7 text psychotherapy, I was struck by how similar it looked to those adult chatrooms which advertise “hot singles in your area are waiting to talk to you now.” Replace the words “hot singles” with “licensed therapists” and you ...

Never Tell Me The Odds

Learning from the Powerball Experiment

November 7, 2016 • by J.D. Finkelstein

In the beginning of 2016, the world saw what was perhaps the largest social psychological experiment of all time. It involved more than 635,000,000 participants and was conducted across 44 states, as well as Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Washington, DC, and its results gave researchers an astonishing ...

Challenging the Status Quo on Therapy’s Place in Schizophrenia Treatment

A discussion of recent developments

December 17, 2015 • by J.D. Finkelstein

Historic wisdom has held that high doses of antipsychotic medications are the most effective treatment for schizophrenia -- but that wisdom has been challenged by a new study reported in an article in ...

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