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Setting Boundaries with Houseguests: Interview with Newsweek
Newsweek reached out to Madison Park’s founder and clinical director Jordan Conrad, to discuss boundary setting with houseguests


Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Therapy: Interview with InsideHook
InsideHook reached out to Madison Park Psychotherapy’s founder and clinical director, Jordan Conrad, to discuss the ups and downs of AI therapy


Psychotherapy and AI, Part 2: Interaction Problems
Of course, the way a tool is used is sometimes beyond the scope of the manufacturer – knives can slice a tomato or be used as weapon. But if the dangers of using the tool are predictable, severe, and potentially unavoidable – if the knife’s handle was, too, a knife – then resultant damage is not entirely user-error, but a failure of the manufacturer’s safety measures.


The Rise of Artificial Girlfriends: Interview with Marie Claire
Dr. Jordan Conrad, spoke to Marie Claire about the mental health concerns he has about using AI for relationship experience.


Madison Park Research: Jordan Conrad published in The American Journal of Psychotherapy
Jordan Conrad, was published today in the official psychotherapy journal of the American Psychiatric Association: The American Journal of Psychotherapy.


Conscious Correlates: Interview with Popular Mechanics
In “Consciousness Begins in the Body, Not the Mind, Groundbreaking Study Finds. Could that Save Countless Coma Patients?” Jordan Conrad, spoke to Popular Mechanics


"I Told You So": Interview with Time
Time reached out to psychotherapists and experts in conflict resolution to figure out how to communicate that you don’t like being asked, just to be ignored.


Psychotherapy and Advice Machines: Interview with Self
In “How Good Is ChatGPT at Giving Life Advice, Really?” Jordan discusses what ChatGPT gets right, and what it (and users) get wrong, using AI for psychotherapy.


Trauma and PTSD
Data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication revealed that in 2001-2003 roughly 4% of all adults and 5% of all adolescents met symptom criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder each year.


Productivity vs Multi-Tasking: Interview with Homes & Gardens
In “It's a 'healthy way to organize your brain' – forget multi-tasking, ‘single-tasking’ is the key to reducing household chore stress” Jordan Conrad, founder and clinical director of Madison Park Psychotherapy discusses the benefits of “single-tasking.”


When You Don't Agree: Interview with Women.com
Women.com reached out to Madison Park's founder and clinical director, Jordan Conrad, to discuss ways to speak with your partner about their behavior - past and present


We Need to Talk: A Response to The Cut's Melissa Dahl
In Melissa Dahl’s “Maybe You Shouldn’t Talk to Someone,” she discusses her growing dissatisfaction with therapy


Pornography's Impact on Sex: Interview with the DailyMail
Founder and clinical director of Madison Park Psychotherapy, Jordan Conrad, explains that popular media in general and pornography in particular are partially responsible.


Artificial Intelligence and Psychotherapy, Part 1: What is Possible?
In order to understand the obstacles to AI replacing human therapists, it is important to know why that would even be desirable


Spring Cleaning Anxiety: Interview with Homes & Gardens
Like taxes, spring-cleaning feels both necessary and overwhelming.The prospect of doing a bottom up clean can cause anxiety and fights.


Twilight of the Idols, or: Are Freud and Psychoanalysis still Relevant?
In this post, I elaborate some of the startling successes and unbelievable excesses of psychoanalysis


The Benefits of Play: Interview with MomsWhoThink.com
MomsWhoThink.com reached out to Madison Park’s founder and clinical director, Jordan Conrad, to find out what is so important about play


The Chemistry of Love: Interview with The Daily Mail
When you are in those early stages of love, a very primitive part of the brain – its reward circuits – becomes active.


Cosmetic Surgery and Young Women: Interview with Newsweek
Afshar reached out to Jordan Conrad, PhD, LCSW, for a comment on how whether cosmetic surgery is a sign of something deeper.


The Pitfalls of Puberty: Interview with Mom'sWhoThink.com
In “The Signs of Puberty in Girls That Every Mom Needs to Know” Jordan explains that parents can forget the psychological aspect of puberty
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