Clinician's Digest
The Rise of Distance Therapy
March/April 2015
What clinical, ethical, and legal issues should we be considering as distance therapy becomes a more common form of practice?
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Cloe Madanes on Advocating for the Most Vulnerable
March/April 2015
Let’s unite to stand up to vested interests that have taken over the mental health system.
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Editor's Note
March/April 2015
There’s been a decline in the public’s utilization of psychotherapy as a consequence of the rise of what might be called the Gang of Three: DSM, Big Pharma, and Managed Care. Today, we appear to be an atomized and poorly organized field that’s lost economic ground to other approaches promising mental health consumers improved well-being. But while recognizing the missed opportunities and missteps we’ve made as a profession, the contributors to this issue also point to what we need to do to make a more concerted and effective stand to reclaim lost territory.
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Family Matters
Don’t Play It Again, Sam: Chance Encounters Can Change Our Lives
March/April 2015
Sometimes chance encounters can change a life.
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In Consultation
Seven Myths about Meditation: A one-size approach doesn’t fit all
March/April 2015
Seven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder.
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Kenneth Hardy on The Attack on Diversity
March/April 2015
Manualized psychotherapy is squeezing out people on the margins of mainstream society.
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Mary Pipher on Psychotherapy in the Age of Overwhelm
March/April 2015
It’s time we address the psychological toll of the daily bombardment of information that permeates our lives.
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Narrowing the Gap
Striving for Honesty in the Therapy Room
March/April 2015
Anticipating endings may encourage us to grasp the present with greater vitality.
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New Choices for New Times
March/April 2015
To stay relevant in a changing world, we need to address the engagement styles of today’s prospective clients.
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Point of View
The Power of Commitment: Mindfulness Is Only the Beginning
March/April 2015
Despite its popularity among therapists, mindfulness is only a beginning in the process of change.
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Scott Lilienfeld on Let Science Be Our Guide
March/April 2015
Therapists are far more impressed with clinical fads than they should be.
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Scott Miller on Resolving Our Identity Crisis
March/April 2015
To move forward, our profession needs a more consistent message about what we have to offer.
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Spitting in the Client's Soup
Don’t Overthink Your Interventions
March/April 2015
In our profession, it’s often more alluring to explore new gimmicks than to acknowledge that our success largely hinges on simple, commonsense factors.
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The State of Our Art
Do Our Old Ways Fit the New Times?
March/April 2015
While the number of people in psychotherapy keeps declining, surveys reveal that potential clients would still rather talk to a therapist than fill a prescription. So what’s going on? We asked six of the field’s most outspoken leaders to offer their views.
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A Doorway to Mystery
Creating a Sacred Space in Therapy
January/February 2015
As pressures mount to narrow the focus of psychotherapy into a medicalized, evidence-based approach, one of the teachers who first helped integrate mindfulness into psychotherapy argues for recognizing the role of ritual and embracing the sacred in our work.
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Bookmarks
Who Failed Robert Peace? Even a Yale Degree Couldn’t Save Him
January/February 2015
Review of: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Why did a seeming rags-to-riches story of a young man’s triumph over poverty and the lure of the streets end so tragically?
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Case Study
Voices of Reason: Empowering clients to alter their internal experiences
January/February 2015
The case of a young man hearing voices shows how even problems that first appear to be extreme can be resolved by empowering clients to alter subtle aspects of their internal experience.
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Clinician's Digest
The Pot Shoppe on Main Street
January/February 2015
The mental health professions are now being forced to address the debate over marijuana legalization.
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Editor's Note
Nurturing the seed of the specifically human capacity.
January/February 2015
Over several thousand years, different cultures have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity—a saving grace, as it were—for mentally stepping outside the rat cage of our own attachments and learning how to escape the whirring agitation of our minds. Over the past couple of decades, these meditative disciplines have become something of a national indoor sport, at least among a large segment of the American middle class seeking to quiet the mind and even develop a quality of genuine wisdom in our overstimulating and stressful world
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Family Matters
A Little Wiggle Room
January/February 2015
It’s never too late to change your story
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In Consultation
The Anatomy of Procrastination: Helping the ADHD Client Make Changes Stick
January/February 2015
Clients with ADHD often know the coping skills that can improve their lives—the problem is applying them in daily life.
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Nature, Pixelated
How the Virtual World Is Rewiring Our Senses
January/February 2015
For the first time in history, we’re mainly experiencing nature through intermediary technology that paradoxically provides more detail while flattening our sensory experience. Can becoming entranced by electronic media alter our brains?
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Point of View
Reinventing Couplehood: Intimacy and Commitment in the Age of Consumer Marriage
January/February 2015
Esther Perel, a couples therapist whose TED talk has had more than 5 million views, believes that it’s time to challenge the mismatch between the romantic ideal and the changing realities of contemporary life.
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