Bringing the War Home
The Challenge of Helping Iraq War VetsWill all we've learned about treating combat stress and psychological trauma since Vietnam help us handle the tsunami of mental health problems the Iraq War is... Read more
Like a Ghost
Using EMDR to Revive a Traumatized Vet’s MarriageEMDR helps a young Irag War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more
Appointments With Yourself
Don't Mistake Your Schedule for your LifeThe search for the elusive experience of being "in the moment" isn't as complicated as you think. All it takes is a cup of tea, a walk, a question, a blessing... Read more
Facing Our Worst Fears
Finding the Courage to Stay in the MomentA therapist helps his anxious clients discover that be not resisting what the present moment offers, they can find a way out of their suffering. Read more
A Week of Silence
Quieting the Mind and Liberating the SelfHow would it feel to sit completely still for a week, not communicating with anyone, just tuning in to the seemingly chaotic jumble of your own thoughts? A... Read more
The Precarious Present
Why is it So Hard to Stay in the Moment?All of us ruminate, bringing up the cud of old, unresolved problems. But far from being idle mind chatter, most of these mental distractions are actually the... Read more
When Three Threatens Two
Must Parenthood Bring Down the Curtain on Romance?Esther Perel explains why new parents need to prioritize their sex lives instead of leaving at the bottom of the to-do list. Read more
Are You There for Me?
Understanding the Foundations of Couples ConflictAnd yet, I wondered, if we didn't have a theory of adult love and emotion, how could we truly understand what marriage was all about, let alone help couples... Read more
A Complicated Grieving
Death, guilt, and anger are an explosive mix"Complicated grief" resulting from unresolved guilt, anger, shame, and regret can fester on for many years. Read more
Triage for Your Practice
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough PrioritizeMany therapists in once-thriving practices are reporting that these days, it's a battle to stay solvent. Read more
The Art and Science of Love
Can the Gottmans Bring Empirical Rigor to the Intuitive World of Couples Therapy?After studying 3,000 couples in the past three decades, researcher John Gottman and his wife Julie are combining his research and her clinical savvy in a... Read more
Small Things Often
The Gottman Method in a NutshellA Gottman Method therapist coaches couples to build marital friendships, rather than trying to engineer dramatic breakthroughs. Read more
You Mean I'm Not Lazy?
Giving Adult Clients with ADHD the Tools to SucceedFrom July/August 2006 issue, a therapist shares how to help adult clients with ADHD be successful in therapy. Read more
Hungry for Connection
10 Ways to Improve Your Therapy with Adolescent GirlsA veteran therapist draws from her years of clinical practice and personal experiences to meet every teenage client where they are. Read more
Phone Sex and the Rabbi
Discovering the Normal in the DeviantA therapist works with a rabbi struggling with his mental health and developing false relationships with phone sex operators. Read more
Getting Uncoupled
Anger Can Blind a Marriage Long After DivorceJust because a couple is legally divorced doesn't mean that they're not emotionally still married. Read more
Riding the Waves of Grief
Practical Tools for Clients and TherapistsKumar 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
Depression: Have We Got It Wrong?
Questions about the serotonin hypothesisTwo 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
Children in Crisis?
Concerns about the growing popularity of the bipolar diagnosisBipolar 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
Being There
The Dalai Lama Gets Buddhism and Neuroscience to Go Face to FaceIn 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
Converting Calls into Clients
How to make the most of first contactHow to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more