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What Is This Thing Called Love?
A Whole New Way of Looking at ItMore than any other positive emotion, love resides within connections. It extends beyond personal boundaries to characterize the vibe that pulsates between and... Read more
Psychotherapy and the Affordable Care Act
Ecstasy in the Consulting RoomThroughout the fall, news about the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA), designed to extend healthcare coverage to millions of the country’s currently... Read more
How Food Improves Mood
Bringing Nutrition into the Consulting RoomLearning even a little about nutrition and diet can greatly enhance therapists’ ability to help clients with mood problems. Read more
Rewriting the Story
Entering the World of the Abused ChildTherapists must offer abused children a different felt experience of who they are. Read more
Emotional First Aid
Looking Beyond the DSMIn Emotional First Aid, Manhattan psychologist Guy Winch provides an instructional manual for handling the bumps and bruises of life. Read more
Sizing Up Goliath
The Upside of Being UnderestimatedWith his enormous success, Malcolm Gladwell has morphed from a darling underdog to a publishing juggernaut at whom it’s now trendy to sling insults. Read more
Louder than Words
The Unspoken Code of Fathers and SonsA Bruce Springsteen song helps crack the unspoken code of father–son communication. Read more
Learning What a Depressed Client Needs
Elisha Goldstein on Individually Treating Cases of DepressionElisha Goldstein asks clients what they need in tough moments and explains why it helps them learn to trust themselves. Read more
Deliberate Practice: The First Step on the Path to Professional Excellence
One Team Finds that Deliberate Practice is the First Step to Becoming a Superior TherapistHow do the supershrinks do what they do? Are they made or born? Is it a matter of temperament or training? Have they discovered a secret unknown to other... Read more
Why We Focus on the Negative
Rick Hanson Explains the Evolution of the Negativity BiasMuch can be made of the power of positive thinking, but the real question is, why do we tend toward the negative in the first place? Read more
Attachment Theory & Treatment: 4 Maxims for Therapeutic Change
Attachment-Oriented Therapists Live by Four Strategies for Working Through Attachment Theory and its Associated DisordersAre there any downsides to basing clinical treatment on attachment theory? David Schnarch, a leading advocate of differentiation in the therapy process... Read more
Working Through the Childhood Wounds that Feed Depression
Judith Beck on Understanding Emotions IntellectuallyJudith Beck talks about an intellectual technique that she uses when doing childhood work with adult clients suffering from depression. Read more
A Conference for People Who Hate Conferences
Networker Symposium 2014: Psychotherapy’s Most Celebrated Anti-ConferenceGenuine learning is conveyed via experience; something happening that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually, something that literally alters the... Read more
Letting Emotion Out and In
Susan Johnson on the Value of Using Emotion in Couples WorkSusan shares the latest research that backs up the central principle of EFT Read more
VIDEO: Desiring Change, but Clinging to the Familiar
David Burns on Turning Resistance into the Voice of ChangeDavid Burns discusses the key to reaching resistant clients—and it's not a new technique. Read more
The Triune Brain: Three Brains Attempting to Work as One
How the Evolution of the Human Brain has Led to the Existence of the Triune BrainWhen thinking about the general evolution of humans, we primarily compare ourselves to our chimp-like ancestors. But when it comes to the specific evolution of... Read more
Coaching with Feeling
Jeff Auerbach on the Key Differences Between Therapy and CoachingJeff Auerbach discusses the differences between therapy and coaching. Read more
Losing Focus as a Therapist
Mary Jo Barrett on Being Better Attuned to ClientsMary Jo Barrett talks about grounding during session to be in the moment. Read more
Bullying in Schools
What to Do When Officials Can’t HelpAs parents become frustrated with officials who can’t help with bullying in schools, they turn to another source. Read more
From Good Person to Ethical Professional
Mitch Handelsman on the Effectiveness of Ethics AcculturationMitch Handelsman explains integrating psychotherapy and ethics acculturation. Read more
One of the Guiding Principles of Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy Illustrated in a Client’s Panic Attack Treatment. Read more
To Self-Disclose, or Not to Self-Disclose?
Ken Hardy on Why Not Self-Disclosing Can Hurt TherapyPsychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks to Ken Hardy about how self-disclosure is part of the power structure in the therapy room. Read more
Developmental Trauma Disorder: Distinguishing, Diagnosing, and the DSM
How One Tenacious Task Force Worked to Separate Developmental Trauma Disorder from PTSD in DSM-5In 2005, a complex trauma task force began working on constructing a new diagnosis called Developmental Trauma Disorder, which, they hoped, would capture the... Read more
VIDEO: Talk Like a Therapist—Even from the Podium
Lynn Grodzki on Attracting New Clients by Being OurselvesLynn Grodzki shares about speaking with audiences about your therapy practice and how to leave your audience wanting more. Read more
VIDEO: Ending Therapy: The Importance of Planned Termination
How to Ease the Transition Out of the Therapy RelationshipLisa Ferentz discusses how to effectively terminate therapy with a client. Read more
Our Habits, Ourselves
What Role Do Habits Play?Psychotherapy too often fails to help clients like myself make changes in their lives because of the blind spot at its core—it undervalues the central role... Read more
Facing a Fear of Confrontation in Couples Therapy
When Couples Issues Hit Close to Home, Moving Forward Means Putting Aside the Fear of ConfrontationWe frequently need to confront our clients, and putting aside a fear of confrontation—not to mention a fear of losing clients—means that we must risk the... Read more
VIDEO: Social Conditioning, Or Are We Just Born That Way?
The Neuroscience Behind Primary Gender TraitsLouann Brizendine talks about one of the key neurobiological distinctions between the sexes: the need to reproduce vs. the need to nurture the helpless. Read more
Mindfulness Therapy: Three Reasons it’s Revolutionizing the Psychotherapy Field
Why Meditation in the West Went from Being Relegated to Counterculture, to Becoming the Hallmark of Mindfulness TherapyTherapists of the '70s and '80s saw meditation as either a fading hippie pursuit or a nonvaluable relaxation method. On the other hand, meditation teachers... Read more
VIDEO: Finding the Hero in Troubled Youth
Ken Hardy on Trauma Treatment that Taps into the Hero that Resides in All YouthPN Founder Rich Simon talks with Ken Hardy about finding the heroism amongst young clients that helps them survive. Read more