Out of the Shadow
What's the Prevalence of Porn Doing to Our Psyches?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
A Warm Bath for the Brain
Understanding oxytocin's role in therapeutic changeHow to get through to clients caught in fight-flight-freeze mode. Read more
Depathologizing Porn
Why Can't It Be Just an Acceptable Diversion?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
Helping Kids Take Charge
How to get young people to turn their problems into coping skillsTurning problems to be diagnosed and medication into skills to be taught. Read more
Heart of the Matter
Helping Couples Find Their Sexual ChemistryWhether 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
Using EMDR to Revive a Traumatized Vet's Marriage
EMDR helps a young Iraq War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more
Throwing Away the Script
Helping Trainees Trust Their GutA clinician explains how to help your supervisees practice therapy from the heart. Read more
Voices of Truth
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
Erickson's Legacy
Strategic therapy rests on skillful information-gatheringStrategic therapy is less about technique than a search for the information that'll illuminate the solution to your client's problem. Read more
You Gotta Have Heart
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
Higher Ground
What Clinicians Should Know about the "Vertical Dimension"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
Hello, Good-bye
Boomers Are Discovering The Joys and Sorrows of GrandparenthoodAs the boomers discover the joys and sorrows of becoming grandparents, they're putting their own generational stamp on a role that's as ancient as parenthood. Read more
From Revolution to Evolution
Salvador Minuchin Reflects On His Therapeutic LegacyAlthough Salvador Minuchin is arguably the most influential clinician of the last half-century, his work is light-years away from the routinized approaches... Read more
Beyond Right and Wrong
Teaching Couples How To Embrace Fair-MindednessWhat do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more
Bungee Families
You Can Go Home AgainWhile some warn that the conveyor belt that once transported adolescents into adulthood has broken down, other insist the increasing number of adult children... Read more
Learning Forgiveness
Peacemaking Skills For CouplesGiven that most couples never manage to change each other very much, teaching them to forgive each other's imperfections is a vastly underutilized therapeutic... Read more
Carrying the Hope
Parenting a child with Asperger'sWhen a child is diagnosed with an autism disorder, everything in a family changes. Good-enough parenting must give way to the demands of uber-parenting: always... Read more
School Daze
The World is a Baffling Place for Kids with Asperger'sConstant Uncertainty about who's a friend and who's a foe, the mundane chaos of the classroom, rules that always seem to be changing—an ordinary day at... Read more
The Second Avenue Deli School of Economics
Lessons from the Great DepressionYou think the toboggan ride of your 401(k) has been rough? A survivor of the Great Depression muses on what that era taught her about managing the unmanageable. Read more
Autism's 5 Core Deficits Defined
Carrying the Hope: Autism's 5 Core Deficits Defined Read more