by Don Kerson | Jul 16, 2018
The average patient goes into the average psychiatrist’s or psychotherapist’s office, or even more likely into the average internist’s office, complaining that he or she doesn’t feel right. They may talk about physical anxiety, either...
by Don Kerson | Jan 26, 2015
This is an excerpt from Dr. Kerson’s book, Getting Unstuck. The first chapter is available here. You can sign up for Dr. Don’s newsletter to get Chapter 3. Or buy the book to get it all. In the past I have introduced the idea that there are two contrasting...
by Don Kerson | Jan 19, 2015
This is an excerpt from Dr. Kerson’s book, Getting Unstuck. The first chapter is available here. You can sign up for Dr. Don’s newsletter to get Chapter 3. Or buy the book to get it all. ADD is confusing for a number of reasons. It has a very varied...
by Don Kerson | Oct 28, 2014
The goal of my psychotherapeutic work, what I do besides prescribing, is to utilize the brain’s natural ability to craft and create itself, its “neuro-plasticity,” once thought to be salient only in youth, now known to continue unabated throughout...
by Don Kerson | May 26, 2009
Adults seeking treatment for ADD often come because their children have been identified; others come because they were diagnosed, or at least discussed, as ADD while a child. (For my purposes there is no distinction between ADD and ADHD; only a question of whether...
by Don Kerson | Feb 10, 2009
Despite ever-mounting evidence of the profound and pervasive influence of attentional disorders in a range of public spheres, from depression to substance abuse, from the educational system to the penal system, these conditions remain poorly understood, inaccurately...
