Insights

Category: Journal

Multi-Generational Trauma and Tobique First Nation

June 30, 2011

If you ever thought that getting access to a psychiatrist is difficult in Toronto, you should try spending a couple days on the Tobique First Nation reserve in New Brunswick. The addiction counselors and children, family and youth workers I…

The 12 Worst Relationship Mindsets: Which Are YOU Guilty Of?

June 15, 2011

By Robert Leahy, Ph.D., Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City In cognitive therapy we focus on the way that you think about things. When we are distressed, we have automatic thoughts — that is, thoughts that…

Is addiction a disease?

May 28, 2011

Margaret Wente Globe and Mail, Tuesday May 17, 2011 I’ve known a lot of addicts in my life – some of them all too well. Some were hooked on booze, some on cigarettes, a few on pot and one or…