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6 Ways a Diagnosis Can Be Dangerous

“Generalized Anxiety Disorder.” “Major Depressive Disorder.” “Attention Deficit Disorder.” Psychiatrists are trained to assess the “symptoms” of their patients and then assign labels using the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (currently the DSM-5). While the DSM gives clinicians a common language to communicate with, the boxes created by these …

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Introducing IFS (Part 1)

My previous post covered some of the scientific theory behind where negative emotions come from. In this post, I’d like to explore a model of therapy that is very well-suited to healing negative emotions: Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS).  The History of IFS             Internal Family Systems therapy was developed by a family therapist named …

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Why are we called Atlas Psychiatry?

As we mulled through thesauruses, searched across web pages, and compiled a massive list of possibilities, we kept coming back to the idea of helping people “orient” themselves in both psychiatry as a whole and within their own heads.