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The New Science of Couples Therapy
Highlights from Symposium 2018In their featured address, the Gottmans explored what research has revealed about the crucial role the brain’s seven different command systems can play in... Read more
On Idealization
Highlights from Symposium 2018A highlight of this year’s Symposium was iconic therapist Irvin Yalom receiving the Networker Lifetime Achievement Award. In this excerpt from his recent... Read more
Moments of Truth
Stories Told at the End of the DayIn our own small way, the Networker has tried to revive the ancient, tribal practice of storytelling. At our third annual Symposium storytelling event, five... Read more
Taking on the largely unnamed complexities of the #MeToo movement for men, this issue explores how therapists can help men respond to women’s experiences in... Read more
Silent and Confused
Opening Conversations with Men in the Wake of #MeTooMost men publicly support #MeToo, but privately—very privately, often too privately even to share with their intimate partners—some are disoriented and... Read more
The Symposium and the Psychology of Shopping
Highlights from Symposium 2018In Networker editor Rich Simon’s introduction to the conference, he likened it to a deeply stimulating marketplace of ideas, where clinicians get an expanded... Read more
What Really Heals and Awakens - Symposium
Highlights from Symposium 2018Weaving together Buddhist philosophy and storytelling, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher Jack Kornfield explored the nature of therapeutic... Read more
Our Myths about Sexuality
Highlights from Symposium 2018Esther Perel called on the Symposium audience to challenge the various myths, especially those about male sexuality, that get in the way of deeper relational... Read more
Taken Over
Breaking the Spell of ObsessionA therapist struggles to help an obsessive client with whom she develops an unusual preoccupation. Read more
Therapy and the Limitations of Mindfulness
When a Technique Becomes a GoalSurprisingly, the bestselling Buddhist author and therapist Mark Epstein doesn't believe that mindfulness is a panacea. Read more
A Tale of Mismatched Twins
The Power of Family Confronts the Bonds of DNAA book about two sets of mismatched twins testifies to the power of both heredity and family loyalty Read more
The Rescue
Finding the Courage to Let GoA whirlwind romance turns into a troubled relationship. Read more
My First Client, My Best Teacher
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A challenging client, who won't speak or swallow, teaches a therapist just starting out how to find her own voice. Read more
The Hearing
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A therapist tries to ride to the rescue of an immigrant client in a desperate situation. Read more
A Complete Life
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A specialist in grief and dying gets an early lesson on what makes up a full life. Read more
Karaoke on Five South
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018A karaoke performance on a psych ward helps a mother and daughter find a way to reconnect. Read more
How to give boys more choices about the kind of men they want to be. Read more
Picture This!
Enhancing Emotional Healing with Visual ImagesEnhancing emotional healing with visual images in your work. Read more
The Retiring Rebel
Rethinking the Way We Help Clients Face the Midlife CrisisRather than thinking of midlife as an emotional unraveling, I believe it’s more helpful to reframe this stage of life in our early 50s and 60s as “second... Read more
Jump-Starting Conversation in Family Therapy
The Difference Between Guiding and InterveningHow do you get family members to talk together productively? Enactments can be among the most valuable tools for getting a family's communication going. But... Read more
Six Ways to Find Comedy in Even the Darkest Moments
Shaking Your Clients Loose from Their Tragic StancesTherapy, in order to shake people loose from their tragic stances and bounce them into the human comedy, is at its best when it is funny, when the tragic... Read more
Therapists Talk Gun Violence
Brainstorming Ways to Make a DifferenceAs an estimated half-a-million protestors poured into downtown Washington, DC for the March for Our Lives, therapists who were in town for their field’s... Read more
Family Therapy as We Know It Needs to Change
To Reach Troubled Adolescents, Look to the "Second Family"Editor’s Note: This article this blog is taken from originally appeared in the March/April 1996 issue of Psychotherapy Networker. When his family was... Read more
VIDEO: Tara Brach on Awakening from the Cybertrance
Dealing with the Challenges to Mindfulness in a Digital WorldIt should come as no surprise that, in our culture, immersion in cyber activities far outpace the interest in mindfulness. But how do you deal with the... Read more
When Money Comes Up in Therapy
Two Ways to Make Your Fee Policies Clear and Easy to Talk AboutMost therapists were never coached about how to reconcile the closeness of the therapeutic encounter with the fact that therapy is also a business. Read more
The Power of Apologizing
What It Takes to Really Be SorryUnlike the faux public apologies from men accused of sexual misconduct that 2017 will likely be remembered for, our private apologies have the potential to... Read more
A push to make mindfulness practices more racially sensitive. Read more
Second Adolescence
An Alternative to the Midlife CrisisInstead of viewing midlife as a time of emotional unraveling, therapists can see it as an opportunity to help clients gain a fuller sense of purpose in... Read more
Life After Extremism
What It Takes to Renounce HateReview: Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent ExtremismA look at how to help former skinheads, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and... Read more