Family

Helping Fathers and Daughters Connect Read more

Saturday Night Fever comes to the bar mitzvah. Read more

A perverse set of financial incentives within the medical system too often leads to the promotion of maximum treatment, no matter what. When this happens... Read more

There's no substitute for a clear clinical model that can guide you through the therapeutic change process. Read more

Reconnecting with old memories in a father's special place. Read more

Fifty years of research has confirmed that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment relationships is central to our well-being as adults. Read more

A mother deals with the news that her child will have a lifelong impairment. Read more

A parent's failing health can stir up a hornet's nest of trouble among adult siblings. Read more

The difficulty young people have leaving home is producing confusion amongst parents and their children. Read more

There's no more emotionally demanding work than that with an incestuous family. A therapist offers an uncensored look at the fear, loathing, and fascination of... Read more

Fond memories of an old-fashioned father who believed in practicing tough love with his fists. Read more

While 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

A client's unexpected announcement makes a therapist confront her illusions of invulnerability. Read more

Throughout our lives, our pets are our most unassuming teachers. Read more

Using one's own anger may be the key to success with difficult teen clients. Commentary by Janet Sasson Edgette Read more

A father and son reflect on a life path that isn't about money Read more

Life in the empty nest can be humbling, exhilarating, and occasionally, just plain weird. Read more

Our best teachers aren't always the two-legged kind. Read more

Facing the challenge of working with a dissembling adolescent in a blended family means changing the "official story" of the problem. Read more

A professor skeptical of the clinical value of family therapy may be doing more to extend the legacy of systems therapy than anyone working with adolescents... Read more

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

A woman who wants to learn a new way to be with her mother teaches her therapist what it means to step out of his own comfort zone. Read more

For parents who are chronically pressed for time and feel increasingly impotent in the face of the perils that litter their teen's lives, backing off from... Read more

Families facing a disabling illness often take refuge in a collective folie. Read more

Stop making sense and allow yourself the luxury of tears. Read more

We're pairing up later, splitting up faster, remarrying less often and increasingly deciding to avoid the whole quagmire by staying permanently single. In... Read more

As today's hyperkinetic families struggle to create the semblance of a shared life out of the frantic and conflicting schedules of their members, the... Read more

"Mom, I think it's time to really forgive you, and maybe even me. But I'm still mad. I just don't know how to let go of it. Believe it or not, I've been trying... Read more

From the September/October 1994 IN THE PHOTOGRAPH OF MY maternal grandfather, Louie, that I remember most clearly, he is around 50, his bald head and... Read more

Today, more than ever, parents need to get in synch. Read more