Treatment-resistant late-life depression (TRLLD) affects nearly half of older adults with major depression. This systematic review evaluates published evidence of effectiveness of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for TRLLD. A search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Library, and online trial registries up to March 2024 was conducted to identify randomized...
Systems for promoting self-realization have come both from the West and the East.Two basically Eastern systems of "therapy," in the Zen tradition and the Hindu Yoga meditative tradition, are now attracting substantial interest in the West.There is now substantial Western concern to evaluate their effectiveness in the way that many other psychotherapeutic traditions have been examined.In...
The “name of the game” for all types of psychotherapy is ultimately the maximization of human happiness. All psychotherapy then becomes concerned with such notions as self-realization, self-actualization, human fulfilment, etc., although a given system may not use such terminology.This paper looks at some Eastern contributions to the promotion of self-realization—in particular a technique in...