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.
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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.
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?
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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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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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Advanced approaches for deep healing and post-traumatic growth
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Apply Proven Models in Everyday Therapy
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The Neurobiology of Worry
Today’s Video: How the Brain Creates Neurobiology Ruts
In this brief video clip, Margaret Wehrenberg, cognitive behaviorist and author of The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, offers some facts about the neurochemical process behind excessive worry. She explains how highly driven people engaging in repetitive worry can literally create a neurobiological pathway in their brains that’s like a worry rut.
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What Makes Psychotherapy Possible
Today’s Video: Clarifying the Fundamental Task of Therapy
Stephen makes it clear that hard scientific evidence now exists for what most therapists instinctively know: successful therapy depends utterly on establishing a safe, caring, mutually trustworthy, stable relationship with a client.
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Examining DSM-5's Most Controversial Change
Today’s Video: Gary Greenberg on the Bereavement Exclusion
“When DSM-III came out and the major depression diagnosis was created,” Gary tells us in this brief video clip, “it was immediately clear that many people who were recently bereaved were going to qualify for that diagnosis. So the question became, what should therapists do about that? And the answer, ultimately, was to create an exclusion—to say that if you’re within two months of bereavement, you don’t meet the criteria for major depressive disorder. You can’t be diagnosed. But this doesn’t make any sense at all.”
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Turning Anxiety Treatment into Play
How Role-Playing Can Help Kids Face Their Anxiety
Seven-year-old Emily is continually nervous and her anxiety is keeping her from enjoying summer camp, sleepovers with friends, and after-school activities. Her parents don’t know what to do, and even her therapist is worried that Emily’s anxiety is starting to define too much her integral sense of self. Treating anxiety in kids takes a creative, often playful approach, says Lynn Lyons, author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents.
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Beating Relapse to the Punch
How to Preempt Anxiety Relapse
Before David Burns wraps up therapy with recovered clients, he makes sure they’re well prepared for relapse. In this brief video clip, he breaks down the components of his Relapse Prevention Training.
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Neuroplasticity Isn’t Always for the Best
Why Therapists Should Know about the Plastic Paradox
Norman Doidge has spent the last 14 years exploring how to integrate recent discoveries in brain science into psychotherapeutic practice. He believes that while the brain has an astonishing capacity for change, brain plasticity doesn’t always work out for the best.
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A New Approach to Diagnosis
Getting Beyond the Limits of Diagnostic Categories
Darrel Regier, vice chair of the DSM-5 Task Force and director of the APA’s research division, argues that DSM-5 is less about assessing fixed characteristics in clients than it is about guiding clinicians to think more dimensionally about diagnosis.
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Stopping the Anxiety-Go-Round
Lynn Lyons On Helping Anxious Kids
Fifteen-year-old Grace doesn’t know it yet, but her troubling anxiety symptoms are run of the mill. Like most anxious kids, it’s not the content of her worries that’s the real issue, but the way her mind and body react to them.
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Assessing the Unintegrated Brain
How to Change the Brain in Therapy
It’s one thing to throw around the scientific-sounding language of brain science, it’s another to actually develop concrete clinical procedures based on our advancing understanding of the brain that make therapy more effective.
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The Hidden Toll of DSM-5 on Psychotherapy
How Increasing Medication Sales Hurt the Therapy Profession
Allen Frances—author of "Saving Normal: Has Psychiatric Diagnosis Gotten Out of Control?"—is one of DSM-5’s most outspoken critics, but his ultimate target is an even larger issue.
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.
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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.
