Daniel Mintie is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School Of Medicine. He offers therapy via his telemedicine platform and teaches cognitive-behavioral approaches to wellness at universities and training centers worldwide.
If you or a loved one are suffering from anxiety, depression, PTSD or any other emotional disorder, I have some wonderful news for you. Over the last 30 years my colleagues and I have been assembling a suite of integrative approaches to wellness that target the very roots of such anguish. We're now regularly seeing complete recoveries from all these disorders - often in much less time than we once thought such healing must take. Please avail yourself of the resources on my site, including free chapters of my books, blog posts, interviews with experts in the field, and my weekly training and consultation program, open to everyone, "All Things CBT." If you're interested in becoming my patient, please follow this link to learn more about my clinical practice. Thank you!
Trauma touches every life. My colleagues and I have developed a cutting-edge suite of mind/body tools anyone can learn and use to heal the physical and mental aftereffects of trauma.
Anxiety brings more people to psychotherapy than any other disorder. CBT has long been recognized as the first-line treatment for generalized anxiety, social fears, phobias, OCD and other disorders
One in five Americans will, at some point in in their lives, be laid low by feelings of sadness, lethargy, hopelessness and worthless. Happily, a drug-free, evidence-based path to healing is now available.
No data exists in support of one hour of weekly therapy being an optimal dose. I offer interested patients four to six hours of psychotherapy for up to five days in a row in my popular therapy intensives.
Humans and canids have together walked the earth for the last 30,000 years. Branching off from the wolf family tree during the Middle Paleolithic, ancestors of today’s domestic dogs fell in step with another apex predator - Stone Age humans - in a fateful partnership that would fundamentally reshape the futures of both tribes and of the planet itself. This unprecedented alliance between two species represents earth’s first instance of “codomestication.” The term describes a mutual decision to go it together and the millennia-long journey that followed from it. It’s a pact and a process that continues today.
Becoming fellow travelers conferred profound benefits on both tribes, catapulting them to the top of the planet’s food chain. It contributed to the end of Neanderthals, earth’s only other apex predator at the time. Homo neanderthalensis had essentially all the other resources of Homo sapiens - but not their pact with dogs. Canids, for their part, used humans as a vector to travel far beyond where they could have on their own. Over time they established breeding populations on every continent except Antarctica; they preceded humans into outer space.
Traveling together through time, sharing the expertise particular to its kind, canids and humans coevolved. Their cross-species bond reshaped the bodies and brains of both. Recent advances in brain imaging, genomic studies and cognitive science have shed new light on this coevolution, deepening our understanding of how we’ve become each other’s best friends.
Canis familiaris provides an overview of this new science and of the long arc of our species’ fellow travels. It shares the author’s lifelong experiences with his own family dogs, who’ve taught him much more than he ever taught them. Taught him to to continue evolving, continue becoming a more human being. He is grateful.
Consider yourself invited: Sit! Stay! Read!
Reclaiming Life after Trauma addresses both the physical and psychological expressions of PTSD, presenting an...
Dharma Wheels is an examination of human happiness through the triple lenses of Zen Buddhism, cognitive-behavioral...
My Tropic of Cancer: Living & Dying With a Dread Disease tells the story of cancer’s passage through three generations of the Mintie family...
The poems in this book are instances. Each points to a world standing up before our thinking, before our saying anything about it to ourselves or anyone else...
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