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Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By 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! Where Have All the “Patients” Gone? Facing the Realities of Practice Today
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: Join Us
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The Attuned Therapist
By Mary Sykes Wylie and Lynn Turner
In recent years, attachment theory, with its emphasis on early bonding, connection and relationship, has exerted as much influence over the field of psychotherapy as any other perspective. Why then do some critics believe that it's sending therapists off on the wrong track?
Bringing Up Baby
By Jerome Kagan
While therapists may consider some intuitively appealing ideas about human development—like attachment theory—beyond dispute, the researcher's job is to challenge unproven explanations shaped more by our biases and preconceptions than by hard evidence.
The Verdict Is In
By Alan Sroufe and Daniel Siegel
Fifty years of research has confirmed that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment relationships is central to our well-being as adults.
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By Bruce Jay Friedman
A determined patient searches for therapeutic insight from an unlikely source.
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