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Still Crazy After All These Years?
A Look at 30 Years of the NetworkerRemember mimeograph machines, the Milan Group, the False Memory Foundation, DSM–III, the Family Therapy Networker, and private practice before managed care... Read more
Psychotherapy's Greatest Debates
Assessing the State of the Art 2012The State of the Art, the Networker’s first-ever virtual conference, offered an opportunity for leaders in our field who disagree to debate each other... Read more
A Brief History of Psychotherapy
A Mosaic of the Psychotherapy Networker, 1982-2012Over the years, our front-of-the-book department has not only given readers plenty of tasty factoids to chew on, but also revealed how the seasons of the... Read more
A Buddhist Approach to Helping Low Self-Esteem
Teaching Self-Compassion in TherapyA Buddhist approach to enhancing self-esteem. Read more
Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Help a Panicked Client
From Certainty to UncertaintyOften clients come to therapy to resolve ambivalence or because they can’t make up their minds. But sometimes, the problem is that they’re too certain... 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
Recovering Together
An Ailing Mother Comes to the Aid of Her SonAn ailing mother and son help each other find their way back to health. Read more
Editor's Note: January/February 2012
Kids These DaysThe old compact between family and society—each doing its part to protect and promote the whole—seems to be badly strained, if not flat-out broken. Thus... Read more
The Decline And Fall Of Parental Authority
...and What Therapists Can Do About ItAmerican parents today face a perfect storm of cultural and social circumstances that undermine the very foundations of parental authority. In response... Read more
Brain-Based Parenting
What Neuroscience is Teaching Us About Connecting With Our KidsOur growing understanding of attachment and the processes that shape the parenting brain are opening new possibilities for helping stressed-out parents who are... Read more
Psychotherapy At The Crossroads
A New Vision of Integrative Mental HealthAn alternative to the old talking cure is expanding the knowledge base of psychotherapy as we recognize the role that exercise, nutrition, spirituality... Read more
- Mental health systems under stress - The timing of trauma treatment - The revolt against DSM-5 Read more
It’s More Complicated Than That
Probing the complexities of the antidepressants debateThe recent spate of negative research findings and unfavorable media coverage of antidepressant drugs have obscured some important clinical issues. Read more
Beyond Clinical Correctness
Unearthing the logic of the client’s solutionAn understanding of the unconventional ways people demonstrate resilience is important in helping us avoid pathologizing clients and stop believing there’s... Read more
Learning How to Learn
Communities of Practice can reveal new paths to excellenceWhile therapists often lead quite isolated professional lives, social-learning theorist Etienne Wenger has shown how a community of practice is perhaps the... Read more
A Bond Like None Other
Sometimes proximity isn’t the same as closenessExploring the complex fabric of an often poorly understood family bond that shapes us, in one way or another, throughout our lives. Read more
The Sadness Ghost
A 6-year-old discovers the power of his imaginationIt’s not necessarily that sadness must always be avoided, but maybe we need to find a way to give it its place. Read more
The Parent Circle
Tapping the Wisdom of True ExpertsTraditional approaches to helping parents too often fail to address their profound sense of disempowerment and frustration. It’s time to find new ways to... Read more
Going Beyond Meditation with IFS
How to Move from Acceptance to HealingMeditation supports clients in being more present and accepting. But if it’s transformation they want, IFS can help them take the next step. Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2011
The Gritty, Hot-Blooded Work of Couples TherapyThis issue’s contributors aren’t just convinced that therapists should do more couples therapy, but that risk-taking and turning up the heat in the therapy... Read more
Facing Our Fears
Why We Avoid Doing Couples TherapyAs neuroscience increasingly shows how wired we are to our intimate partners, an important question arises for therapists: Why do we primarily continue to see... Read more
Removing The Masks
Let’s Stop Wasting TimeConventional therapeutic wisdom aside, people typically don’t hurt each other because they’re out of touch, unable to communicate, or can’t help... Read more
A Matter Of Choice
Deciding: to be Right or be Married?Do you want to be right or be married? Okay, now pause, think, breathe . . . and choose between First Consciousness and Second Consciousness. Read more
In Or Out?
Treating the Mixed-Agenda CoupleAt least 30 percent of couples coming to therapy have fundamentally different agendas about whether to try to save the marriage. If we’re ever going to... Read more
- Chilean miners' long-term trauma - Training good therapists - The question of bullying Read more
From Estrangement to Engagement
Helping Fathers and Daughters ConnectHelping Fathers and Daughters Connect Read more
The Five “A’s” of Transformation
The Enneagram as a Clinical ToolThe Enneagram and the 5 A’s of transformation. Read more
Our Potential for Good
Altruism as an Evolutionary ImperativePsychologist Darcher Keltner believes that underestimating our capacity for altruism does human nature a disservice. Read more
The Heart of Darkness
Plumbing the Nature of EvilPlumbing the eternal question: Why are there bad people? Read more
The Fundamental Things
The times and tides of 33 years of marriageThe times and tides of 33 years of marriage Read more