From the Editor
Sigmund Freud, Aaron Beck, Steve Jobs?
Do apps have the potential to reshape mental health?
It’s a hot topic and Nature – the prestigious British journal – explores the potential and pitfalls of mental health apps.
In this week’s Reading, we consider “Pocket Psychiatry.”
Also: journalist John Stossel discusses his lung cancer – and health-care delivery.
From the Editor
Sigmund Freud is dead.
Are his ideas dead, too?
Sigmund Freud – Irrelevant?
Psychiatry has left much of Freudian analysis behind. Is that a good thing? This week’s Reading ponders this question – first, with an excellent essay by The Guardian’s Oliver Burkeman that considers “the revenge of Freud,” then with a response from New York Magazine’s Jesse Singal, and, finally, with a recent paper from The American Journal of Psychiatry comparing patients with bulimia who received psychoanalysis and who received CBT.
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