Jill Edelstein LCSW

10/12/2015

a real eye and mind opening read. although it is overly simplified from the professional literature of bowlsby and ainsworth and other attachment theoreticians, i am looking forward to bringing this frame into my practice (and my life!) in a fresh way. this book is extremely readable. i am tearing through it! anybody interested in a new look at relationship difficulty (and potential) might find this helpful.

We rely on science to tell us everything from what to eat to when and how long to exercise, but what about relationships? Is there a scientific explanation for why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle? According to psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir...

08/21/2015

At one point during my mother’s last month on this planet, she was offered an extra pillow to make her more comfortable. She half-joked that the pillow belonged over her face. If I had known what her final days would be like, I may have obliged. Dying at home is all the rage. Letting Granny wither…

08/12/2015

Compared to people who have a logical reaction to people’s emotions, empathetic people are found to have denser grey matter in specific areas of the brain.

08/04/2015

i was invited to contribute a piece to a web series called "hopes&fears" about remembering and forgetting.

Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they're talking about. Today, we talk memories with a memory researcher, a memory athlete, a psychologists and trauma therapist.

07/29/2015

It is not uncommon for adoptive parents to come to us feeling out of options for their difficult child and overwhelmed about what could have created all of these DSM diagnoses and intense feelings and behaviors.  Especially if the child was adopted at or near birth.“We adopted our son at birth. We b…

07/28/2015

Groups that demand obedience and conformity produce fear, not love and growth.

07/18/2015

A new study by researchers at University of Maryland School of Medicine has identified promising compounds that could successfully treat depression in less than 24 hours while minimizing side effects. Although they have not yet been tested in people, the compounds could offer significant advantages…

07/17/2015

Science has turned up some troubling information about the trendiest of all veggies.

07/13/2015

Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients. If a...

07/10/2015

Brain damage is caused by persistent depression rather than being a predisposing factor for it, researchers have finally concluded after decades of unconfirmed hypothesising. A study published in Molecular Psychiatry today has proved once and for all that recurrent depression shrinks the hippocampus…

07/08/2015

a useful but limited tool. finally people are speaking out.

‘Researchers have found that CBT is roughly half as effective in treating depression as it used to be’

06/24/2015

folks are finding about about paper notebooks now? really?

It’s really hard to believe, but I have to say that one of the most—and possibly the most—profound changes I’ve made in my life over the last several years was the simple decision to start carrying a pocket notebook and a pen with me wherever I go. Unless I’ve made a mental miscue when swapping out…