Living Brave
From Vulnerability to Daring
With millions of people having seen her TED talks and read her books, researcher and bestselling author Brené Brown is a phenomenon. But aside from her talents as a speaker, teacher, and writer, why is she such a runaway hit? Haven’t therapists been writing about her professional specialty—the malign impact of shame—for decades? Perhaps her vast appeal has to do with how she’s turned the concepts of shame and vulnerability on their heads.
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7/13/2016
Authors:
DANIEL J SIEGEL, MD
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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7/13/2016
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DANIEL J SIEGEL, MD
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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Editor's Note
Today, with all the presumed advances therapists have made in reducing mental suffering from previously untreatable conditions, is there a solution, a cure, a fix for OCD? As with so many difficult emotional conditions, the answer is far from simple, not least because OCD appears to bear a strong genetic component. Still, we have more knowledge about how to recognize it, and how to distinguish it from other conditions that it often mimics, including PTSD, depression, and even psychosis. More importantly, many specialists working with OCD employ some variation on what two authors for this issue, Martin Seif and Sally Winston, call “upside-down therapy,” an approach that seems to break, or at least bend, the rules of what many of us have been taught is good clinical practice.
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VIDEO: New Networker Master Class Series! Overcoming Resistance with David Burns
The Secret to Better Outcomes in Less Time
According to David Burns, MD, one of the originators of CBT and an expert in treating depression and anxiety, too often therapists ignore clients’ aversion to change. So he's developed a powerful approach to overcoming client resistance — once and for all. In our new online Master Class, Overcoming Resistance with Dr. David Burns: The Secret to Better Outcomes in Less Time, you can learn how David applies his evidence-based TEAM approach to motivate clients toward change and increase positive outcomes.
Daily Blog
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5/23/2016
Authors:
DAVID D. BURNS, MD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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5/23/2016
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DAVID D. BURNS, MD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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Editor's Note
At this year's Symposium, we invited veteran therapists to tell their true stories of their “most unforgettable session,” and those stories are the focus of this issue. Each takes you deep inside an experience with a client that turned that therapist inside out, jolting them out of their comfortable expectations into an interaction that allowed something extraordinary to take place. Prepare yourself for some unusually honest and probing explorations into both the pitfalls and rewards of practicing the therapist’s craft, including the occasional impossibility of distinguishing between the two.
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Editor’s Note
I suspect that no matter how sophisticated we become about sex in the abstract, there’s some half-hidden, unacknowledged suspicion within most of us that sex—or at least the way we personally experience and think about it—is peculiar, if not downright bizarre.
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1/1/2016
Authors:
DAVID GRAND, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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1/1/2016
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DAVID GRAND, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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Why It's Tough to Talk about Sex
Editor's Note
Overall, putting together the new video course and the magazine issue was an oddly touching experience, because I felt that there was a deep sense of camaraderie, common discovery, and shared vulnerability. I had the sense that whether we felt uncomfortable, exhilarated, or just fascinated by what is, after all, an endlessly fascinating topic, we were all in this project together. And by “this project,” I mean not just our exploration of sex, but the whole human project.
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Editor's Note
This issue of the Networker is an attempt to explore what we can contribute as a profession to the “conversation about race,” which, as lame and ungainly as the phrase often sounds, keeps heating up around us, even as most of us have done our best to ignore it. The intent is not somehow to analyze racism as yet another clinical problem that we can solve through our good intentions, insight, and therapeutic ingenuity, but to recognize the hard and uncomfortable truth of how racist oppression, explicit or implicit, doesn’t just harm “them.” Ultimately, it harms us all.
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Evidence-Based Strategies for Overcoming Conflict, Trauma, and More
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11/13/2019
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JOHN M. GOTTMAN, PHD
JULIE SCHWARTZ GOTTMAN, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
WILLIAM BUMBERRY, PH.D.
VAGDEVI MEUNIER, PSY.D.
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11/13/2019
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JOHN M. GOTTMAN, PHD
JULIE SCHWARTZ GOTTMAN, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
WILLIAM BUMBERRY, PH.D.
VAGDEVI MEUNIER, PSY.D.
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Terry Real on Working with Narcissists, Bullies, Boy-Men and Avoidants
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4/11/2019
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TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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4/11/2019
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TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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2/18/2019
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DAVID D. BURNS, MD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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2/18/2019
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DAVID D. BURNS, MD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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9/19/2018
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JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
STEPHEN PORGES, PH.D.
KATE COHEN-POSEY, MS, LMHC, LMFT
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
DAFNA LENDER, LCSW
JONATHAN BAYLIN, PH.D.
DEB DANA, LCSW, LICSW
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9/19/2018
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JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
STEPHEN PORGES, PH.D.
KATE COHEN-POSEY, MS, LMHC, LMFT
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
DAFNA LENDER, LCSW
JONATHAN BAYLIN, PH.D.
DEB DANA, LCSW, LICSW
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6/20/2018
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WILLIAM DOHERTY, PHD
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
ESTHER PEREL, MA, LMFT
MARY JO BARRETT, MSW
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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6/20/2018
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WILLIAM DOHERTY, PHD
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
ESTHER PEREL, MA, LMFT
MARY JO BARRETT, MSW
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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Master the body-oriented approach to trauma and stress disorders
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4/23/2018
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PETER A. LEVINE, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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4/23/2018
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PETER A. LEVINE, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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1/18/2018
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ESTHER PEREL, MA, LMFT
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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1/18/2018
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ESTHER PEREL, MA, LMFT
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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1/1/2018
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RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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Advanced approaches for deep healing and post-traumatic growth
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7/30/2017
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JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
DIANE POOLE-HELLER, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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7/30/2017
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JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
DIANE POOLE-HELLER, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Apply Proven Models in Everyday Therapy
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7/20/2017
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SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
DANIEL A HUGHES, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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7/20/2017
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SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
DANIEL A HUGHES, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
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Esther Perel on Adapting to Uncertainty
And How Relationships Are Changing in a Pandemic
There’s a profound change occurring in our relationship to space. In working remotely, it feels at times like we’re doing home visits. In video calls, we enter each other’s intimate spaces: kitchens and messy bedrooms. We’re not working from home—we’re working with home.
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The Addict in All of Us
An Interview with Gabor Maté
By Lauren Dockett and Rich Simon - Over the years, physician Gabor Maté has challenged his audiences to stop asking “why the addiction?” and start asking “why the pain?” Here, he explains his view of how addictive patterns of behavior are rooted in alienation and emotional suffering.
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Psychotherapy's Most Quotable Voice
What Makes Esther Perel Stand Out?
By Lauren Dockett and Rich Simon - By questioning some of the fundamental premises of traditional marriage, couples therapist Esther Perel has become, at least for the moment, psychotherapy’s public face and most quotable voice. But what is she saying that’s so intriguing and makes her stand out from all the other relationship experts our field produces?
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Learning to Bear the Unbearable
How MDMA Works
By Bessel van der Kolk and Rich Simon - As a researcher and outspoken advocate for therapeutic innovation, Bessel van der Kolk has been as influential as anyone in shaping the landscape of trauma therapy today. He describes what’s distinctive about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.
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How Psychedelic Therapy Could Change Your Practice
Author Michael Pollan on the Promises and Challenges of a Growing Movement
By Rich Simon - Author Michael Pollan talks about his latest book on the science of new psychedelics, as well as the many challenges therapists face in integrating the lessons of psychedelic therapy into their work.
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A Q&A with Tony Robbins
What's His Message for Therapists?
By Rich Simon - Most therapists are only vaguely aware of Tony Robbins and his take on personal change. But if you attract millions of people from a staggering range of backgrounds, it’s a good bet you have something to offer. So what’s that elusive “something” that he transmits to people? And can therapists learn anything useful from him? In a recent interview, Networker editor Rich Simon sat down with him to find out.
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Take It or Leave It
The Therapy of Carl Whitaker
By Rich Simon - Carl Whitaker was family therapy’s master of the absurd. This Networker profile described him in action demonstrating his belief that the unsocialized inner world of fantasy and impulse is a source of creativity to be defended against society’s abnormal normality.
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Fearless Foursome
The Women's Project Prepares to Pass the Torch
By Rich Simon - For two decades, the members of the Women’s Project in Family Therapy were the outspoken feminist conscience of psychotherapy and, with their humor and warm camaraderie, became beloved role models in a field that had long been dominated by male leaders.
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A New Appreciation for Human Resilience
Rich Simon on Embracing Vulnerability as Strength
By Rich Simon - Clearly, therapists must always respond with empathy, understanding, and attuned clinical expertise to clients’ suffering. But in their urgency to relieve pain, therapists must not overlook the rich possibilities for health and growth within every person, without which even the most skilled clinician in the world can do nothing. In the end, all clients must, to some extent, be their own healers.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: New Networker Master Class Series! Overcoming Resistance with David Burns
The Secret to Better Outcomes in Less Time
According to David Burns, MD, one of the originators of CBT and an expert in treating depression and anxiety, too often therapists ignore clients’ aversion to change. So he's developed a powerful approach to overcoming client resistance — once and for all. In our new online Master Class, Overcoming Resistance with Dr. David Burns: The Secret to Better Outcomes in Less Time, you can learn how David applies his evidence-based TEAM approach to motivate clients toward change and increase positive outcomes.
Daily Blog
Editor's Note
The overwhelming shift to teletherapy this year represents the first wave of a sea change in the field of therapy—nothing less. We’ll need to marshal all the creativity and skill we’ve got to become active, thoughtful participants in this process.
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Editor's Note
How can therapists of all races and ethnicities support their clients of color in voicing their experiences of racial oppression and naming what they need to heal? And how can white therapists in particular use their skills and commitment to self-awareness to look more deeply at themselves and their privilege?
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The Addict in All of Us
Gabor Maté's Unflinching Vision
Canadian physician Gabor Maté believes that addictive behaviors are woven into the very fabric of our materialistic society.
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Editor's Note
What is it like for the more than six million women in the U.S. who face reproductive challenges? In simpler terms, what happens when you want a baby but things don’t turn out as you dreamed? With so many options in reproductive medicine these days, how can therapists knowledgeably guide clients on this complicated and harrowing journey?
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Editor's Note
The stories in this issue are notable not only for their therapeutic wisdom, but also for their authors’ capacity to connect with us in a time of unprecedented crisis. Written at warp speed, the talks highlighted from our Virtual Symposium this year speak directly to our anxiety, grief, and bafflement as we found ourselves—it’s still barely believable—in the grip of a pandemic.
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Something’s afoot in the therapy world, and some clinicians will surely wrinkle their brows at it. Although it comes in various forms, the catchiest term for it is microtherapy. Can these single-session encounters help meet the growing demand for therapy? Is it all some clients need or want? How effective is it really?
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An Interview with Esther Perel
Expanding the Conversation
Esther Perel traces the development of her approach and the wider response to her ideas about sexuality and intimacy.
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Editor's Note
The pace of our daily schedules can make it hard to look up from our appointment apps and ponder the bigger picture: Why are we doing this thing called therapy? What drew us to the field in the first place? Over time, has our quest changed?
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Editor's Note
Many of us overlook our physical environments, and perhaps especially our work spaces, which may be so familiar that we no longer really see them. In this issue, we explore the power of our offices to trigger a sense of safety or distrust, generate a feeling of welcome or indifference, and encourage creativity or stasis.
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Editor's Note
The dimensions of the opioid epidemic are staggering, and the national conversation around drug abuse has begun to change. Today, more and more voices are arguing that compassion and treatment might be a more effective approach than judgment and punishment.
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Richard Simon, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and for the last 40+ years has been the editor of Psychotherapy Networker, the most topical, timely and widely read publication in the psychotherapy field. As editor, he has received every major magazine industry honor, including the National Magazine Award.
