Molly Layton

Contributed by Molly Layton

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Magazine Article - Open Book

September 14, 2022

It’s All in Your Head?

A Primer on Chronic Pain

Molly Layton

A new book by physician Haider Warraich reveals the untold story of chronic pain. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

March 22, 2022

A Vehicle of Awakening

Can Psychotherapy Be a Spiritual Practice?

Molly Layton

In The Zen of Therapy, psychiatrist Mark Epstein explores what a Buddhist therapy has offered his clients. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

January 7, 2022

Suicide as a State of Being

One Man's Ongoing Struggle

Molly Layton

A new memoir from celebrated writer Donald Antrim reflects on the nature of suicide. Read More

Magazine Article

January 1, 2017

Turns in the Road

Highlights from the Networker Journey

Katy Butler, Dusty Miller, Esther Perel, Frank Pittman, Fred Wistow, Gary Greenberg, Laura Markowitz, Mary Sykes Wylie, Molly Layton, Rich Simon, and Ron Taffel

Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of articles that have appeared in the Networker over the past four decades, we’ve chosen a small sampling that captures the magazine’s most journalistic side, conveying not so much the eternal verities of our profession, but the sense of reading a first draft of the field’s history. Among other things, you’ll find therapeutic methods that, as exciting as they seemed at the moment, didn’t stand the test of time as well as initial forays into discussing complex issues we’re still struggling with today. We’ve also added in a few examples of writing so immediate and compelling that they have an air of timelessness. Prepare yourself for an interesting journey. Read More

Magazine Article

May 5, 2009

You Say Tomato...

Or How I Learned to See Every Couple as the Odd Couple

Molly Layton

Too often couples make contrasts in temperament into negative stories about how their partner won't change. Could it just be that every couple is The Odd Couple? Read More

Magazine Article

July 1, 2008

Getting It Right

In HBO's In Treatment, Art Imitates Therapy

Molly Layton

The 43-episode HBO series In Treatment held up a mirror to our profession, immersing viewers in the ebb and flow of the psychotherapy process, and revealing what devoting a life to this work does to its practitioners. Read More

Magazine Article

January 1, 2008

The Soul of Relationship

Where Self and Other Meet

Molly Layton

Making "contact" with our partner means first recognizing a subtle inner substrate where we encounter everything from boredom to anxiety to sexual interest to outright rage...and more. Read More

Magazine Article

March 1, 2001

My Greatest Therapeutic Intervention

Learning a lesson in love

Molly Layton

David must be 15 or 16 when I notice that he's reading Rolling Stone. He sits on the piano bench pulled up to the dining room table, and Dopey sits beside him, as she also does for every supper, her little head just barely able to survey the table. Ferd chirps as always from the sunny dining room corner, and David's nose is stuck in long, long articles on Devo and David Byrne and Sting's upcoming trip to the Amazon rain forest. Read More

Magazine Article

November 1, 1998

Ripped Apart

Molly Layton

That persevering anger is one of the things that make those of us who are struggling with feeling victimized look so, well, unattractive. I recently spoke with Sue Johnson, a Canadian couples therapist who writes about the trauma that occurs when someone is abandoned or betrayed. "In these cases," she said, "we often don't take people where they are. There's a period a long period when injured people are even homicidally angry. They want to hurt someone. Read More

Magazine Article

November 1, 1995

Mastering Mindfullness

Slowing Down and Opening Up

Molly Layton

The attitude of mindfulness holds the therapist right up against his or her growing edge. Read More

Molly Layton has been writing for the Psychotherapy Networker for over 25 years. Her short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and included in the Writing Aloud Series at the InterAct Theater in Philadelphia. She has a private practice in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania.