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Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?

Tough CustomersBy Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people!

You Don’t Have To Choose

Casey Truffo On Doing The Work You Love And Making It Pay

The Dance of Intimacy

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Where Have All the “Patients” Gone? Facing the Realities of Practice Today

Where Have the Patients Gone? By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction:
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March/April 2013

Tough Customers
Is it Them or Us?
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Clinical Wisdom
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Treating the Anxious Client
New Directions for Psychotherapy’s Most Common Problem
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Is The Game Changing?
The Rise of Therapeutic Coaching
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The Craft of Conversation
Would you open up to this therapist?
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Ethics in the Digital Age
Where do we set the boundaries?
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Emotion in the Consulting Room
How therapists really feel about feelings
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Taking the Measure of Psychotherapy?
Confronting the dilemmas of 21st-century childrearing
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Are Parents Obsolete?
Confronting the dilemmas of 21st-century childrearing
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Who's Afraid of Couples Therapy
Streching Your Comfort Zone
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The Mindfulness Movement
Do We Even Need Psychotherapy Anymore?
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The New Grief
Are We Casualties Of Medicine's War On Death?
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Achieving Excellence
Do We Need A New Role Model?
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The Great Attachment Debate
How Important Is Early Experience?
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Diets and Our Demons
Does Anything Really Work?
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The Wounds of War
Returning vets are challenging us to rethink our approaches to PTSD
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Life After 2.0
Has the Digital Revolution Become a Relationship Revolution?
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The New Monogamy
Can We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too?
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The Secret World of Men
What Therapists Need to Know
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The Growing Debate Over the
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Psychotherapy and the Brain
Are We Entering a New Era of Practice
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The Porn Explosion
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Parenting in the Age of "Whatever"
Paradoxes of the Post-Boomer Family
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A World of Difference
Living with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
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We Change Our Stripes?
The Role of Temperament in Psychotherapy
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In Search of a Safety Net
Helping Our Clients and Ourselves in the New Economy
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Face To Face
Therapy in the Age of Screenworld
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Putting Therapy Skills to Work in Our Post-Election World
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How Evolved Are We?
The Triune Brain in the Consulting Room
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Ain't Dead Yet!
Against All Odds, Community Mental Health Fights to Hold On to Its Vision
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The New Face of America
Psychology Takes on the Immigration Debate
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A Nation of Insomniacs
The Lost Art of Sleep
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Looking In, Looking Out
Mindfulness as a Path to Relationship
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Supershrinks
Who Are They? What Can We Learn from Them?
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Being There
Lessons in Long-Term Caring
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