I wrote an initial post on "New research suggests ... focus on strengths rather than weaknesses" a couple of days ago. I discussed various reasons for thinking that better matching of patients to more personalized treatments could be helpful (although difficult) and looked as well at several research studies that have explored possible benefits of focusing treatment - particularly early in the course of therapy - on patient strengths rather than their weaknesses.
In 2010 Simon & Perlis highlighted the importance of being better able to match depression sufferers to treatment approaches that were more likely to benefit them. In their paper "Personalized medicine for depression: Can we match patients with treatments?", they wrote: "Response to specific depression treatments varies widely among individuals. Understanding and predicting that variation could have great benefits for people living with depression ...
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database -
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When I get to heaven they will not ask me, “Why were you not Moses?” Instead they will ask “Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could come?” Susya, a Hasidic rabbi
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." Thich Nhat Hanh
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes." Proust
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." Rumi
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." Confucius
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"But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new." Shunryu Suzuki
In 1970 I started to learn meditation with the Cambridge Buddhist Society. It was the year that Shunryu Suzuki's great book "Zen mind, beginner's mind" was published. I was deeply intrigued. So much of his writing was challenging:
