Why Is This Man Smiling?
A Self-Described Grouch is Trying to Turn Happiness into a ScienceSelf-Described grouch Martin Seligman, the father of the positive psychology movement, is trying to turn happiness into a science. Read more
Giving Nature a Good Name
Book reviews of The Soul of Recovery; Trauma Practice in the Wake of September 11, 2001; and Love at Goon Park Read more
The Untold Story: An Interview with Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan on recapturing the lost voice of pleasureIn her new book, The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan has tried to probe the root of what makes intimate partnership between men and women so difficult. What... Read more
In Search of a Balance
Informing our children of both the beautiesmdashand dangersmdashof sexA book review of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine Read more
Bad Couples Therapy
Betting Past the Myth of Therapist NeutralityA dirty little secret in the therapy field is that couples therapy may be the hardest form of therapy, and most therapists aren't good at it. Of course, this... Read more
The Awful Truth
Most Men Are Just Not Raised to be IntimateAfter the publication of my book, 'I Don't Want to Talk about It,' I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the... Read more
Discoveries from the Black Box
How the Neuroscience Revolution Can Change Your PracticeIncreasingly, therapists are trying to make sense of the cavalcade of neuroscientific discoveries regularly trumpeted in the research literature and the... Read more
In the Bedroom
Countering the destructive effects of trauma on intimacyA book review of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors: Strengthening Attachment Bonds by Susan M. Johnson Read more
The Slippery Slope
Violating the Ultimate Therapeutic Taboo"I doubt that I would fit many people's image of a therapist who would violate sexual boundaries with a client. Before it happened, I certainly did not fit my... Read more
Divorce Court
Weighing the latest evidenceA book review of For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly Read more
Cognitive-Behaviorism Comes of Age
Grounding symptomatic treatment in an existential approachHelping her make a connection between her emotions and the traumatic event was an important milestone for Celeste, because it enabled her to viscerally... Read more
No Contest
How a therapist learned to listenA take-charge clinician meets his match and finally learns to listen to his clients-and himself. Read more
A Guide Through the Darkness
An ambitious new book offers a road map for depressed clientsBook reviews of The Noonday Demon; Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change; Whispers from the East; and The Shattered Self. Read more
Assessing the New 'Energy' Therapies
We still don't know why they work, or if they really doA book review Read more
Beeper in the Bedroom
Technology has become a therapeutic issueAs the digital revolution permeates and alters our lives, therapists are increasingly called upon to become the guides to a balance between the allure of... Read more
Teacher as Healer
The challenges of the classroom cast the therapist's role in a new lightA good education is preventive medicine. It strengthens one's mental, emotional and spiritual immune system. Read more