A new report in the Wall Street Journal explores the development that therapists and mental health professionals in clinics across America have been instituting cooking and baking classes as a means to help people who suffer with depression.

Everybody hurts sometimes — even Gwyneth Paltrow.

Phone therapy is often considered as a temporary alternative to in-person therapy — when a doctor or patient is traveling, for example, or in an emergency. But a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that phone therapy alone can effectively treat depression.

The Wall Street Journal ran a story Tuesday featuring whiny people whining about how their old therapists let them whine too much.

The new resident Gawker therapist, Anonymous, is a licensed therapist who treats many different patients, but specializes in teens and couples therapy. After many years in the field, Anonymous has lots of stories and insight to share. We'll be publishing some of them here.

Rep. Michele Bachmann's "psychologist" husband, Marcus Bachmann, is apparently starting to feel like a liability to his wife's political prospects. Either that, or he just likes talking to the papers! Because he's now going on the record to defend his Christian counseling business against charges of being anti-gay.

If your efforts to convince your dad/boyfriend/brother/manservant to "see someone" about his "issues" have failed, it might be because the man in question has issues with women. Maybe he should see someone about that! Oh, if only he could.

A whole bunch of Democratic staffers on Capitol Hill soon will be unemployed, like every other American. So in their last days, exiting staffers are being granted career advice, résumé building, and... grief counseling.

Action toys have finally found a place to vent their emotions: YouTube! These are kind of like excerpts from an R-rated, live-action Toy Story, if there's such a thing. In one, Snow Patrol Commando rants about racism in the workplace:

One should not take love advice from one's psychiatrist. Dating is not conducive to mental health! Now we learn of a woman whose psychiatrist set her up with dudes to get some creepy vicarious kicks of his own.

Feeling gay? Wishing you could rid yourself of the evil gay demons haunting your soul? Well you're in luck! The Manifested Glory Ministries Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut will exorcise your gay demons, just like they did for this 16-year-old boy.

The emotional devastation caused by the recession, by careers imploding or nest-eggs disappearing, is often of a magnitude that requires professional help. But supposing you can't afford therapy? Luckily, Time is your substitute shrink this morning, and even better, its advice is quick, simple, and doesn't require…

Booze, religion, and therapy not doing enough to calm you down as the economy implodes? How about hypnotism? New York hypnotherapists report that business has surged in recent weeks, a trend that started following the collapse of Bear Stearns in March. As for what you actually get for $60 to $150 per session, you…

We just heard that shrinks in New York are suffering from a slowdown in business due to widespread belt-tightening, but apparently not the ones the Observer talks to, who say that an epidemic of stress means business is good, and will likely boom as the fallout from the economic crash continues. (Of course, they…

As part of its plan to pathologize (and profit from treating) every single mode of human behavior, the therapy industry has joined forces with financial advisors to help people with money problems, creating, reports the Times, a new field "where budget planning meets psychological counseling." You don't need to be…