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Treating the Mixed-Agenda Couple

Bill Doherty On An Approach For Unaligned Relationships

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

Hedy Schleifer On The Art And Science Of Nonverbal Connection

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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We've all been told that the new brain science can give us a powerful new way of understanding our clients, but it's still not clear to many of us what we're supposed to do with this knowledge once we get it...

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Clients with borderline issues, trauma survivors, and others with chronic problems often leave their therapists feeling paralyzed and ineffective--no matter how hard you huff and they puff, you can't blow the problem down...

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