2012 May/June
May/June 2012 Emotion in the Consulting Room
How therapists really feel about feelings

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MJ2012-1How to Harness this Great Motivator

By Susan Johnson

Neuroscientists have recently established that emotion is the prime organizing force shaping how we cope with challenges. Now psychotherapists are learning how to work with emotion, rather than trying to control it.

MJ2012-2Connecting with the Shut-down Client

By Kathryn Rheem

Resonating with clients’ inner experience is key to being able to work effectively with emotion in therapy. With traumatized and shutdown clients, however, becoming attuned is easy to talk about, but extremely hard to do.

MJ2012-3A Clinician’s Guide

By Jay Efran and Mitchell Greene

Our understanding of what happens when we weep hasn’t progressed much beyond Freud’s theory of catharsis. However, knowing how our nervous systems work can help guide what we do—and don’t do—when clients burst into tears.

In Praise of Therapy’s Best Kept SecretMJ2012-4

By Jeffrey Von Glahn

Too many therapists today confuse the healing release of tears with the helpless despair triggered by reliving traumatizing memories in therapy.

MJ2012-5Embracing the New Wisdom

A 4-Day Immersion in Full-Engagement Living

Andrew Weil, Mary Pipher, and Dan Siegel, along with 150 other presenters, not only helped the Networker Symposium celebrate its 35th anniversary, but illuminated a new vision of integrative mental healthcare.

MJ2012-7The Latest Advances in Marketing Your Practice

The SoLoMo Revolution

By Joe Bavonese

MJ2012-6Using Men’s Groups to Enhance Couples Therapy

Men Helping Men

By Robert Garfield

Mary Pipher on Activism

Applying our Healing Skills in the Wider World

By Ryan Howes

Daniel Kahneman Expands Our Vision

System One Meets System Two

By Diane Cole

Not Yet a Teen, But Not a Child

Understanding the “Tween” Years

By John McCarthy

Embracing Our Inner Emotional States

By Rich Simon