Loving Our Devices
By Lauren Dockett - More and more therapists, regardless of how they feel about internet addiction as a diagnosis, are advising clients about the healthy use of their digital devices.
Helping Parents Rekindle the Erotic Spark
By Esther Perel - The transition from two to three is one of the most profound challenges a couple will ever face. Family life flourishes in an atmosphere of comfort and consistency. Yet unpredictability, spontaneity, and risk are precisely where eroticism resides. Eros is a force that doesn't like to…
What Traumatized Children Need Most
By Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz - While working with child survivors during the 1992 Waco siege, I found that we had a group of children that had essentially been marinated in fear. The only way we could get them the help they needed was to apply our understanding of how fear affects the brain and…
When Jailers are Prisoners, and Prisoners are Jailers
By Salvador Minuchin - In most cases when a child carries a problem, the goal of family therapy focuses on transferring the ownership of the symptom from the intrapsychic machinery of the child to the interpersonal drama of parents and child affecting each other.
What Writers and Therapists Have in Common
By Mary Pipher - Both good writing and effective therapy rely on the ability to move beyond the self to understand how the world looks and feels to another person. Here, an author and psychotherapist argues that this quality of "moral imagination" is crucial to our ability to face the enormous…
Getting "Ghosted" by Clients
By Chris Lyford - We've all seen it happen. Maybe some of us are even guilty of it ourselves: Sometimes it's easier to simply ignore people than respond when they reach out. But this disappearing act, or "ghosting" as it's become commonly known, also happens to therapists quite often. Here,…
Brain Science in Clinical Practice: Applying the Power of Neuroscience to Heal Trauma, Attachment, Shame and More
Revolutionary advances in the field of neuroscience continue to present new opportunities for therapeutic breakthroughs—regardless of what form of therapy you practice. Join some of the leading experts on applying brain science in clinical practice, including Janina Fisher, Linda Graham, Rick Hanson, Bruce Ecker, Sara Bridges and Noel Larson, and discover proven treatment techniques that you can…
