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Twenty-five years ago, it was considered a great advance when therapists first began to approach childhood abuse as a form of trauma. Now new research suggests... Read more

A naysayers look at Martin Seligman and the Positive Psychology industry he helped create. Read more

A variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more

Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. Commentary by Joe Kort. Read more

Fond memories of an old-fashioned father who believed in practicing tough love with his fists. Read more

This issue examines whether our increasing knowledge of all those multisyllabic brain processes has really made us more effective practitioners. Read more

In the 1970s, the rise of Prozac, the DSM-III, and "evidence-based" therapies brought the appearance of coherence and order to mental health professions under... Read more

A tipping point has been reached in the impact that psychotherapy research results, no matter of interest only among a small circle of academic, are going to... Read more

As we learn more about the brain, it becomes apparent that therapists need to pay at least as much attention to the body and nervous system (both their own and... Read more

For the firs time, we're beginning to understand how to directly delete emotional meanings attributed to disturbing past events. Read more

As unlikely as it may sound, the mathematics of complexity theory could offer us the key to the elusive secrets of mental health and personal well-being. Read more

Our collective survival depends on a shift in our most basic assumptions and perceptions, one that'll drive changes in commerce and industry, as well as in our... Read more

It's one thing to make change happen in a couples session; it's quick another to make those changes tick over time. Read more

Treating depression requires a commitment to working with mind, body, and spirit. Read more

A young woman discovers the world of the senses. Read more

More than a time-consuming diversion, Facebook can play a central role in marketing your practice. Read more

Can science really help us raise better-adjusted kids? Read more

A revolution in how people access and use pornography has taken the therapy community by surprise. Now some experts believe that an epidemic of porn use is... Read more

Open porn use introduces a relational question that most couples never face: how to live with the knowledge that your partner's erotic fantasy-world often... Read more

Whether they know it or not, what most people are looking for in sex therapy isn't so much a change in specific behaviors as a way of developing a more... Read more

How to get through to clients caught in fight-flight-freeze mode. Read more

Turning problems to be diagnosed and medication into skills to be taught. Read more

EMDR helps a young Iraq War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

Strategic therapy is less about technique than a search for the information that'll illuminate the solution to your client's problem. Read more

A clinician explains how to help your supervisees practice therapy from the heart. Read more

This article first appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. There are many ways to say “I don’t know.” She was a diminutive woman... Read more

This article first appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. Mindfulness has become one of the hottest growth areas in the field of psychotherapy in the... Read more

Modern therapy has given scant attention to morally elevated emotions like awe, gratitude, and admiration, resulting in a skewed picture of how people actually... Read more

When TV finally came, in the early '50s, the world it brought into our living rooms was black and white, and dumbed way down. Newsmen now had faces, and, as... Read more

What do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more