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How to Heal the Angry Brain
Mad MenMen with anger problems are generally highly reluctant clients who come to our offices only because they’ve gotten “the ultimatum” from their wives... Read more
Psyche and Soma
How Our Bodies Reveal Our Inner ExperienceFor more than 25 years, Pat Ogden has been at the forefront of developing somatic approaches that can succeed where the talking cure fails. Read more
Bookmarks: Creatures of Habit
Understanding the automatic loops that shape our livesA surprise bestseller shows us the crucial roles that even minor habits can play in individual and group behavior. Read more
Isle of Dreams
Searching for a lost self in the Ould SodSometimes the places we long to visit speak to needs that go much deeper than our appetite for exotic sights. Read more
Imagine a world populated by college undergraduates. A world filled with binge drinkers and sleep-deprived procrastinators tweeting their sexual exploits to... Read more
Fostering Moral Imagination
Empathy is a radical actIn a world where differences between people have become increasingly demonized, more than ever, the therapist's job is to help people expand their circle of... Read more
Editor's Note: July/August 2012
Ethics and BoundariesThe hallmark of the therapeutic encounter is that the therapist is an expert, trained in a particular skill-set to conduct a rather odd, rarified conversation... Read more
Yesterday’s Ethics Vs. Today’s Realities
Boundaries in an Age of InformalityAs the status of therapist has shifted from an oversized figure with Svengali-like powers to an overworked and underpaid service provider at the mercy of the... Read more
Therapeutic Ethics In The Digital Age
When the Whole World is WatchingThe revolution in communication technology has created a new set of ethical dilemmas, which are invading our sessions, whether we know it or not. Read more
Therapist Self-Disclosure
Think Before You Get PersonalThe ways we disclose, read cues from our clients, and dialogue about what’s been divulged are the keys to whether therapist self-disclosure helps clients’... Read more
Psychotherapy and The Law
Two Practical PerspectivesA therapist–lawyer on what most often gets clinicians in trouble with the law and everything you need to know about the duty to report, to warn—and more. Read more
The Art of Hanging-In There
A Hospice Social Worker’s Take on Inside CurveballsWhen something is coming at you that may cause pain or self-doubt, it’s natural to want to duck. Read more
The Anatomy of Self-Hatred
Learning to Love Our Loathed "Selves"With stalemated cases in which the task of self-acceptance feels impossible, the therapist needs to offer more than compassion and encouragement. Read more
What If Your Mobile Device Went Missing?
The Importance of Tracking our TechnologiesEver consider what would happen if your portable device—chock full of information about your clients—went missing? Read more
Irvin Yalom on Psychotherapy as Craft
Looking Back to Move ForwardIn an age when all eyes seem constantly riveted on the Next Big Thing, celebrated therapist-novelist Irvin Yalom takes a different approach. Read more
Stop, Look, and Listen!
Resisting the Culture of ExtroversionA new book about the power of keeping your mouth shut provides a much-needed corrective to our cultural enchantment with extroversion. Read more
Mozart Redux
Not All Families are Related by BloodNot all families are related by blood. Read more
Editor's Note: May/June 2012
Our Emotions: Unruly, Unnerving, InvaluableThis issue maps out not only what the latest science tells us about how emotion works, but also how therapists can more fully acknowledge within themselves the... Read more
The Power of Emotion in Therapy
How to Harness this Great MotivatorNeuroscientists recently established emotion is the prime force shaping how we cope with life’s challenges. Psychotherapists are beginning to learn how to... Read more
Connecting with the Shut-down Client
Helping A Combat Vet Face His VulnerabilityResonating with clients’ inner experience is key to working effectively with emotion in therapy. With traumatized and shutdown clients, however, it is easy... Read more
Why We Cry
A Clinician’s GuideOur understanding of what happens when we weep hasn't progressed much beyond Freud's theory of catharsis. However, knowing how our nervous systems work can... Read more
In Praise of Therapeutic Crying
Therapy’s Best Kept SecretToo many therapists today confuse the healing release of tears with the helpless despair triggered by reliving traumatizing memories in therapy. Read more
Symposium 2012
Embracing the New WisdomAndrew Weil, Mary Pipher, and Dan Siegel, along with 150 other presenters, not only helped the Networker Symposium celebrate its 35th anniversary, but... Read more
The Latest Advances in Marketing Your Practice
The SoLoMo RevolutionThe SoLoMo revolution is transforming the way therapists can generate client referrals on the Internet. Read more
Mary Pipher on Activism
Applying our Healing Skills in the Wider WorldBestselling author and retired psychotherapist Mary Pipher makes a case for therapists’ having the know-how to become effective social activists---and for... Read more
System One Meets System Two
Daniel Kahneman Expands Our VisionDaniel Kahneman, the founder of behavioral economics, has written a comprehensive dissection of the reasoning mind, which should be on every therapist’s... Read more
"Tweenitis"
Mastering the art of ‘gruntology’The father of an 11-year-old struggles to master the language of gruntology. Read more
Using Men’s Groups to Enhance Couples Therapy
Men Helping MenFor men who still consider entering couples therapy a stroll into a lion’s den of shame, humiliation and failure, a men’s groups can be both a crucial... Read more
Is Psychotherapy Getting Better?
A Progress Report on the Science—and Art—of the Psychotherapy FieldWhat do we know today about the effectiveness of psychotherapy that we didn’t know 30 years ago? Even more important, how do we improve our treatments? Read more
Igniting Excellence in Psychotherapy
Top performers are made, not bornWhen it comes to achieving excellence, author Daniel Coyle has found a common pattern of focused, guided practice and instruction that leads to success. Read more