Psychiatry's pursuit of euthymia: another wild goose chase or an opportunity for principle-based facilitation?

The authors are encouraged that the field of psychiatry is moving towards including euthymia and its components (e.g., well-being, flourishing and resilience) as well as dysfunction (i.

A survey study of occupational pain and injury in ophthalmic plastic surgeons.

Purpose: To determine factors associated with pain/injury related to practicing ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Methods: A 29-question electronic survey was sent to the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's listserv. The Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detector technique was used to generate a decision tree using SPSS software.

The effect of a Health Realization/Innate Health psychoeducational seminar on stress and anxiety in HIV-positive patients.

Background: Chronic stress and depression have a negative impact on immune functioning and threaten the well-being of HIV-positive patients. Although therapy methods, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, have been shown to reduce stress and depression in such patients, not all patients are willing or able to undergo therapy over time. The Health Realization/Innate Health (HR/IH) psychoeducational approach is a brief intervention alternative that can be presented in a classroom setting.

Health Realization/Innate Health: can a quiet mind and a positive feeling state be accessible over the lifespan without stress-relief techniques?

Health Realization/Innate Health (HR/IH) questions long-held assumptions about chronic stress, and challenges current definitions of both stress and resiliency. HR/IH sets forth principles that explain why the experience of psychological stress is not an effect of causal factors beyond people's control, but is an artifact of the energetic potential of the mind. HR/IH describes the "cognitive factor" in stress not as the content of people's thinking in response to stressors, but rather as a quality of the way people hold and use their thinking, referred to as state of mind.