Ben Greenberg, PsyD

01/27/2023

Very glad to have been featured in this article about Psychedelics and Eating disorders by the wonderfully talented Meghan Zhang.

For young patients, lasting treatment can feel elusive. Psychedelics could change that.

04/05/2022

05/17/2020

For all those who may be interested, I will be giving an interview about my practice during COVID-19 on Business Talk Radio's Mental Health series this Tuesday, 5/19 at 10:28am. Please tune in at:

https://businesstalkradio1.com/studio-two/ or https://tunein.com/radio/Business-Talk-Nationwide-s281640/

11/13/2019

In my experience, acknowledging simple principles about the neurophysiology of trauma such as this can do a lot to reduce internalized shame, and enhance the capacity for self-compassion and healing.

11/06/2019

Giving this well-established fact the widespread attention it deserves will hopefully allow more people in need to be reached and rehabilitated.

Proper mental health care = health care. Period.

https://apnews.com/bf647b36c0a64e4b935b96426d5baf86

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials estimate that millions of cases of heart disease and other illnesses are linked to abuse and other physical and psychological harm suffered early in...

10/23/2019

"It’s the struggle faced having an ‘invisible’ disability - one that impacts a person's life but can not be easily seen or understood by the public and sometimes even by friends and family.

Invisible illness or disability affects millions of people. Many of them have been told "but you don't look sick".

A NSW campaign launched last December called encouraged people "to see beyond the chair because not all disabilities are visible".

https://www.smh.com.au/national/but-you-don-t-look-sick-living-with-an-invisible-disability-20190905-p52oc1.html?fbclid=IwAR1PfuD279JbUncEemvpD7ZZYOEsASkCEM1PPvcOQ9Nm_B3GmlVDIDlwWeY

When Rebecca Young parks her car in the disabled section, she often feels the searing stares.

10/23/2019

https://www.facebook.com/673159912/posts/10157666853289913/

10/10/2019

Scary reality of the times. Please seek support if you are in need, or be a support to those who may need it.

"Because of longer work hours and stagnant wages, millennials suffer from higher rates of burnout than other generations. Many of them have even quit their jobs for mental-health reasons.

Structural factors at play behind the uptick in "deaths of despair," according to the Trust for America's Health and Well Being Trust include the myriad financial problems millennials are facing: student-loan debt, healthcare, childcare, and an expensive housing market ... People who have died by su***de were eight times more likely to have debt."

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-mental-health-burnout-lonely-depressed-money-stress -is-on-the-rise-among-millennials-1

Depression and "deaths of despair" are on the rise among millennials, many of whom suffer from loneliness, money stress, and burnout in the workplace.

10/07/2019

10/07/2019

Striving to better understand each individual’s context and experience is at the heart of all my clinical work. This article does a good job of describing the process of case formulation - a core component to clinical psychologists’ education and practice, and the antithesis of the pathologizing “biological disease” model of mental health.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/preventing-mental-illness.html

A “formulation” gathers the biological, psychological and social factors that lead to a mental illness — and offers clues to the way out of suffering.