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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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.
Magazine Article
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
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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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.
Magazine Article
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?
Magazine Article
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.
Magazine Article
Editor's Note
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?
Magazine Article
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.
Magazine Article
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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Evidence-Based Strategies for Overcoming Conflict, Trauma, and More
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Terry Real on Working with Narcissists, Bullies, Boy-Men and Avoidants
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The Profound Influence of Today’s Antidepressants
Today’s Video: Can Antidepressants Change Our Personalities?
For decades, our field has debated the effectiveness of antidepressants in therapy: how much of recovery comes from the placebo effect? Do SSRIs help people achieve anything more than basic levels of functioning? Do they even work at all?
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When Emotional Hurt Becomes Chronic Pain
Today’s Video: How to Treat Chronic Pain
Psychotherapy for chronic pain? It’s not an obvious connection to many who live with persistent aches, pangs, and cramps that defy all the usual medical explanations and interventions. To be fair, it’s not a connection a lot of therapists are making either. Using talk therapy to treat chronic pain is still a developing area of our field, and Maggie Phillips is among those leading the way.
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Using Empathy to Help Kids Self-regulate
How Being Calm and Collected Gets Us Connected
According to Martha Straus, author of No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents, time-outs don’t really nip misbehavior in the bud. Instead, they often exacerbate anxiety, making kids feel misunderstood and alone. Young kids can’t self-soothe and regulate emotion like adults can, Martha says. That’s why, in these sorts of situations, she says we need to turn to co-regulation, “loaning” our limbic brains and emotional stability to help kids feel attended to and comforted.
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Stop Shooting the Messenger
Today’s Video: The Case for Hearing Anxiety Out
As far as universal human experiences go, anxiety is usually seen as a heinous beast. Clients hate it and therapists offer ways to get rid of it—but not many take the approach that multisensory therapy expert Danie Beaulieu offers.
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Exploring Clients’ Relationship with Their Meds
Today’s Video: Getting Beyond Chemistry
As both a prescriber and a therapist, Frank Anderson believes that therapists need to take a more active role in exploring clients’ relationships with their medications. After all, therapists know quite a bit about how to handle a troubled relationship when they see one, even if it’s between a person and a chemical agent.
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Attachment Work with Cut-Off Kids
Today’s Video: Becoming Part of the Young Client’s Story
When Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy developer Daniel Hughes first started working with children who struggled with serious behavioral and emotional problems, he knew something was missing in his approach. Daniel found the answers he was looking for in Attachment Theory—or at least most of them. Attachment Theory told him plenty about the symptoms and behaviors of his clients, but there were no instructions he could immediately apply to working with kids and families. He had to experiment and think outside the box to develop his own attachment-informed way of doing therapy.
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Helping Anxious Parents Help Their Anxious Kids
How to Keep Anxiety from Taking Charge
It’s important to remember that parents of children in therapy often find their child’s problems just as anxiety-provoking as the child does, says Lynn Lyons, author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents. Don’t be afraid to lead with a little humor when dealing with parents, she says, and then follow with your knowledge and advice.
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Winning the Anxiety Game
Today’s Video: How to Change the Rules
There’s a reason agoraphobic people stay home and acrophobic people stay grounded. No one enjoys the way that panic feels. But the trouble with trying to avoid or get rid of panic altogether is that it can lead to a fear of panicking itself. What panicked clients need from therapy instead, says Reid Wilson, author of Don’t Panic, are skills for engaging with their distress, not new ways to keep avoiding it.
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Wired for heterosexuality or homosexuality?
Today’s Video: The difference between the gay and straight brain
It’s a topic that has been at the center of countless debates, both rational and irrational. Is there a clear biological difference between the heterosexual and homosexual brain? According to Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain and The Male Brain, the answer is predictably complicated.
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A New Way to Engage Teen Clients
Today’s Video: Dan Siegel on the Power of Teenage Brain
Dan Siegel, author of Brainstorm: The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain, knows that nobody—especially an angst-filled teenager—likes being told what to do. As creative and adventurous as they may be, you’re likely to get eye rolls and crossed arms when you tell them, for instance, that the best way to control their anger toward their parents is through breathing exercises. That’s why Dan takes a more roundabout approach. “Would you like to know more about your brain?” he asks first. Only when the answer is yes—or rather, “Sure, why not? I’ve got nothing better to do.”—can you break out the brain science.
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.
Magazine Article
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?
Magazine Article
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.
Magazine Article
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?
Magazine Article
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.
Magazine Article
Editor's Note
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?
Magazine Article
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.
Magazine Article
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?
Magazine Article
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.
Magazine Article
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.
