An Awareness of the Soul
What Does It Mean to Really Get in Touch with Yourself?When I was 5 years old, I experienced something that made me feel viscerally, mentally, emotionally, and inescapably connected to everything and everyone... Read more
VIDEO: How to Broach the Subject of Medication with Kids
When Is It Necessary? An Expert Explains.Given the stigma still attached to psychiatric drugs, it’s no surprise that today’s kids might have reservations about taking them. But as a specialist in... Read more
VIDEO: Stepfamilies: Great for Parents, Grief for Kids?
Patricia Papernow On The Double-Reality New Stepfamilies FacePatricia Papernow, an expert in working with stepfamilies, helps us understand the fundamental issues and unique hurdles most stepfamilies must navigate. Read more
The Long Shadow of Patriarchy
Couples Therapy in the Age of TrumpThe election of Donald Trump and the resurgence of populism throughout the West were fueled by a renewed pull toward certain notions of traditional... Read more
Editor's Note - September/October 2017
This issue doesn’t try to resolve all the myriad challenges of couples work. Instead, it opens up a conversation about the things couples therapists rarely... Read more
A Squeeze of the Hand
What Does a Son Owe His Mother?After a lifetime of conflict, a son faces the question of what he owes his mother. Read more
Ethics and the Rise of Text Therapy
The rise of text therapy is raising ethical questions for its practitioners. Read more
Everywhere at Once
Esther Perel Is Becoming Therapy's Most Visible PresenceBy questioning some of the fundamental premises of traditional marriage, couples therapist Esther Perel has become, at least for the moment, psychotherapy’s... Read more
Daring to Play
The Challenge of Embracing Our Youngest ClientsAlthough they make up nearly a quarter of the population, children are rarely a central part of therapists’ practices. Why? The most effective interventions... Read more
How to Change Minds
Reasoning Will Get You NowhereThe Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others. When it comes to truly changing minds, reasoning will get you nowhere. Read more
From Tough Love to Empathic Love
Teaching Parents to Earn Their Children’s RespectHelping families move past stalemates often means teaching parents to earn their children’s respect. Read more
The New Frontier in Trauma Treatment?
The Promise of MDMAUsing drugs like MDMA (aka Ecstasy) may be the new frontier of trauma treatment. Read more
Coping and Learning After a Client's Suicide
A Therapist Reflects on What He Might Have Done DifferentlyI've been in full-time private practice for almost 30 years. In that time, three patients in my practice killed themselves. Each suicide has left me... Read more
The Science of Togetherness
Making Couples Therapy More EffectiveDespite all the intellectual excitement it generated, the hard truth is that, so far, the systems revolution hasn’t led to very effective ways of doing... Read more
VIDEO: Richard Schwartz on Being a Compassionate Witness to Yourself
How Internal Family Systems Gives Traumatized Clients Their Power BackAccording to Richard Schwartz, the originator of Internal Family Systems therapy, the natural state of the mind is to be subdivided into parts, which carry the... Read more