IDEAS — Amy Jones, EdM, MSW

Amy Jones 7/29/11 Amy Jones 7/29/11

bring your atomizer on the trip down memory lane: preserving smell as an historical artifact in the Boston Globe

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Amy Jones 7/20/11 Amy Jones 7/20/11

does retail therapy help?: shopping and emotions in the atlantic
photo: Gregory Harris

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Amy Jones 7/20/11 Amy Jones 7/20/11

the psychological benefits of dangerous playgrounds in the new york times

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Amy Jones 7/18/11 Amy Jones 7/18/11

the truth (or at least part of it) about gaydar in Scientific American

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Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11

jonah lehrer in the wsj on meditation and pain management
photo: Miriam Sitchinava

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Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11

Peter Kramer contributes to the antidepressant argument in The New York Times

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Amy Jones 7/11/11 Amy Jones 7/11/11

The New York Times looks at what’s good about “telepsychiatry”: a 40-year-old question?

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Amy Jones 7/3/11 Amy Jones 7/3/11

“If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as …

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Amy Jones 7/3/11 Amy Jones 7/3/11

monogamy, infidelity, and marriage in the NYT Magazine

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Amy Jones 7/2/11 Amy Jones 7/2/11

What we know about relationships, healing, and the debate between alternative and traditional medicine in The Atlantic
Image from Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney)

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Amy Jones 7/2/11 Amy Jones 7/2/11

David Eagleman on questioning free will: crime, neurobiology, and “custom sentencing” in The Atlantic

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Amy Jones 7/1/11 Amy Jones 7/1/11

the mysteries of on-line dating in the New Yorker

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Amy Jones 7/1/11 Amy Jones 7/1/11

identity management: the new york times magazine explores the dilemma of a therapist when a client’s sexual identity and religious beliefs conflict

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Amy Jones 6/27/11 Amy Jones 6/27/11

“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor ‘Paradise Lost’ was dashed off by a party animal.”
Why we need…

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Amy Jones 6/25/11 Amy Jones 6/25/11

a psychological autopsy of Ernest Hemingway in the The Independent

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Amy Jones 6/25/11 Amy Jones 6/25/11

are the big drug companies now defining mental illness?: a vigilant exploration by former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell in The New York Review of Books

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Amy Jones 6/25/11 Amy Jones 6/25/11

a research study on first impressions of therapists and their offices

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Amy Jones 6/25/11 Amy Jones 6/25/11

Compelling Atlantic article on why kids with “perfect” childhoods often are unhappy as adults.
A few excerpts:
“I can’t tell you how often I have to say to parents that they’re putting too much emphasis on their kids’ feelings because of…

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Amy Jones 6/12/11 Amy Jones 6/12/11

when are animals useful in psychotherapy?

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Amy Jones 6/12/11 Amy Jones 6/12/11

therapy in the NYT book review

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