Mind
Mirror Mirror
Emotion in the Consulting Room is More Contagious Than We ThoughtEmpathy may be the life's blood of good therapy, but scientifically, it's remained a rather fuzzy concept. Now a serendipitous lab discovery is showing how... Read more
Altered States
Why Insight by Itself Isn't Enough For Lasting ChangeIncreasingly, neuroscience is making it clear that therapists rely too much on the consulting room drama of insight and not enough on good, old-fashioned... Read more
Riding the Waves
Neurofeedback: A Breakthrough with Learning Disabilities?Neurofeedback is one of a group of new technologies that promises not only to treat the symptoms of mood, attention, and learning disorders, but to address the... Read more
A Different Kind of Presence
Bringing Body-Centered Experience into Your WorkTherapy can too easily become reduced to two talking heads, spinning out tales. But treatment can be intensified and enlivened by tapping into our immediate... Read more
Enlightenment Reframed
When East Meets West in the Consulting RoomUntil recently, our understanding of "enlightenment" has been shrouded in spiritual hero worship. But we're beginning to see it as a thoroughly natural... Read more
The Larger Self
Discovering the Core Within Our MultiplicityThe practice of therapy, for both therapist and client, is transformed when we connect with our fundamental core, a process that involves learning to listen... Read more
The Limits of Talk
Bessel Van der Kolk Wants to Transform the Treatment of TraumaFor more than 20 years, Bessel van der Kolk has been in the forefront of research in the psychobiology of trauma and in the quest for more effective... 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
Rx for Passion
Antidepressants needn't depress the libidoFrom the March/April 1999 issue As a psychiatrist and couples therapist, some days it seems as if I never talk about anything but sex. And increasingly, I... Read more
The Anatomy of Resilience
New research reveals what helps people shake off adversityWe have clues about what makes some people prevail over psychological adversity... Read more
The Mission Memory
Furnishing our Present with Specters of the PastEvery response, belief, action, and emotion can be seen as a wave of memory. The present is gauged by how much it joins or fails our memories. So what is the... Read more
This article first appeared in the March/April 1996 issue. 1. Take a few minutes in the morning to be quiet and meditate sit or lie down and be... Read more
From the May/June 1994 issue LEARNING DISABILITIES (LD) AND Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are distinct disorders that not only undermine... Read more