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A Gottman Method therapist coaches couples to build marital friendships, rather than trying to engineer dramatic breakthroughs. Read more

Many therapists in once-thriving practices are reporting that these days, it's a battle to stay solvent. Read more

A veteran therapist draws from her years of clinical practice and personal experiences to meet every teenage client where they are. Read more

From July/August 2006 issue, a therapist shares how to help adult clients with ADHD be successful in therapy. Read more

A therapist works with a rabbi struggling with his mental health and developing false relationships with phone sex operators. Read more

Just because a couple is legally divorced doesn't mean that they're not emotionally still married. Read more

Kumar answers a question about how to deal with clients who have suffered devastating losses. The first thing a therapist must do is to reassure the client by... Read more

Two new studies suggest that the conventional wisdom fostered by drug companies about what causes depression and how both the brain and the Prozac generation... Read more

In Washington, D.C., this fall, the Dalai Lama brought together a distinguished group of contemplatives and world-class scientists to explore the links between... Read more

Bipolar disorder was first flagged as a pediatric illness in the mid-1990s, when researchers led by Joseph Biederman of Harvard and Barbara Geller of... Read more

An erotic fetish disrupts a man's sexual history as well as his current relationship Read more

How to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more

As neuroscience was becoming the topic du jour of the therapy field, we sent Senior Editor Katy Butler to MIT on a mission. The result was, literally, a... Read more

In 2004, the outing of New Jersey Governor James McGreever brought widespread attention to the new "mixed marriage ." But the issues such couples struggle with... Read more

Phil McGraw, or Dr. Phil, seems not to be "on television," but rather to emanate from television. Authoritative and comforting, he confronts victimhood with... Read more

With the life expectancy of the elderly rising, today's Boomers, much maligned for their presumed selfishness, are facing a far more daunting challenge in... Read more

I'm interested in integrating meditation into my psychotherapy practice. What's the best way of doing this, and are there situations in which meditation can be? Read more

An understanding of the inborn dimensions of human temperament reveals that the concept of "normal" is far richer and more expansive than previously imagined. Read more

At 83, family therapy pioneer Salvador Minuchin, the most dazzling therapeutic practitioner of his generation, continues on in his search for clinical wisdom. Read more

I nod numbly as I try to absorb the image of building a coffin for one's child. [Eric]'s son, Paul, is 15 years old. He's slowly dying from a brain tumor. n... Read more

Therapists often assume that people going through grief or trauma must always emotionally work. But through the experience if they are to recover, recent... Read more

Researchers and practitioners alike have long been concerned that Ritalin use in childhood could lead to later drug abuse. But when a University of California... Read more

As they've aged, the Boomers have kept redefining previous generations' ideas about the stages of the life cycle. But while the pop bromide may insist that "50... Read more

Among the more curious findings of the therapy-research literature is the failure to show that experienced clinicians get any better results than novices... Read more

When therapy stalls, it's usually time to investigate the undercurrents that nobody wants to talk about. Read more

Empathy may be the life's blood of good therapy, but scientifically, it's remained a rather fuzzy concept. Now a serendipitous lab discovery is showing how... Read more

Increasingly, neuroscience is making it clear that therapists rely too much on the consulting room drama of insight and not enough on good, old-fashioned... Read more

Neurofeedback is one of a group of new technologies that promises not only to treat the symptoms of mood, attention, and learning disorders, but to address the... Read more

They set up on either side of the patient's bed and reassure the unconscious patient and his relatives that they don't have to do anything. [Margaret Pasquesi... Read more

Sometimes, raising a child is less an act of love than something much wilder. Read more