New Science for Psychotherapy
Can we predict how therapy will progress?Psychologists Robert-Jay Green and Paul D. Werner of the California School of Professional Psychology insist that family therapists who don't rethink their... Read more
Breathing Room
Creating a Zone of Safety and Connection for Angry Black TeensTherapy is about healing and also about promoting connection. The healing starts when we lance the wounds our clients bring in, help them vent their pain and... Read more
Following the Money
Why fewer and fewer men are becoming therapists.If the male perspective is lost entirely from our profession, the culture will once again see emotional work as women's work, and I think we all will lose Read more
Long-Distance Therapy
Helping an isolated family heal their traumaFrom the May/June 1994 issue IN THE SPRING OF 1991, MY MOTHER, A MENNONITE AND a nurse-midwife, called me from rural Pennsylvania. “Can you give... Read more
Friendship with a Price Tag?
What does account for a goodly chunk of the positive change that clients experience from therapy, the outcome research shows, is the time-honored therapeutic... Read more
Emerging from the Shadows
Looking Beyond the Borderline DiagnosisIn the minds of many therapists, the borderline diagnosis has come to be a code word for trouble. To get past our sense of helplessness with these clients, we... Read more
Zen and the Art of Therapy
Gazzangia, M,S. (1985). The social brain. New York: Basic Books.2. Haley, J. (1986). Uncommon therapy. New York: Norton.3. Kapleau, P. (1989). The three... Read more
Bringing Up Father
How My Children Taught Me the Secret of FatherhoodWhen author Frank Pittman became a father, he discovered that the childhood absence of his own father left him with no idea how to relate to his kids. This... Read more
Turning Down the Temperature
Handling one of marriage's most explosive crisesHow to cool down the temperature with couples facing the crisis of infidelity. Read more
Swallowed Alive
Not surprisingly, almost nothing makes children, including adolescents, feel as insecure and adrift as parents who also feel insecure and adrift, tossed by... Read more
Becoming Brothers
We cannot get through. My father, brother and I huddle in the hall. Arthur says, "It's up to Dad." Dad blinks in pain, his hazel eyes filmy behind his... Read more
A Window on the World
From the March/April 1994 issue We have grown used to having front-row seats during natural and political cataclysms like the Los Angeles... Read more
Cloe Madanes
Behind the One-Way KaleidoscopeAt the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC they don't believe self-knowledge fires the engine of change and insist instead that therapy is really just a... Read more
