After studying 3,000 couples in the past three decades, researcher John Gottman and his wife Julie are combining his research and her clinical savvy in a... Read more
A Gottman Method therapist coaches couples to build marital friendships, rather than trying to engineer dramatic breakthroughs. Read more
A therapist works with a rabbi struggling with his mental health and developing false relationships with phone sex operators. Read more
Just because a couple is legally divorced doesn't mean that they're not emotionally still married. Read more
An erotic fetish disrupts a man's sexual history as well as his current relationship Read more
In 2004, the outing of New Jersey Governor James McGreever brought widespread attention to the new "mixed marriage ." But the issues such couples struggle with... Read more
Despite all the hoopla, the dropout rate for Viagra exceeds 40 percent. A case explores the aspects of middle-aged sexuality that no drug can address. Read more
Many therapists fail to recognize that sexual desire doesn't always play by the rules of good citizenship. By counseling political correctness in the bedroom... Read more
In her new book, The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan has tried to probe the root of what makes intimate partnership between men and women so difficult. What... Read more
Here are the mistakes both beginning and experienced couples therapists commit, and how you can avoid them. Read more
After the publication of my book, 'I Don't Want to Talk about It,' I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the... Read more
A book review of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors: Strengthening Attachment Bonds by Susan M. Johnson Read more
A book review of For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly Read more
From the March/April 1999 issue Heighten Awareness of All the Senses William Masters and Virginia Johnson introduced to the West a technique called... Read more
A jazz drummer tunes in to how a couple organizes time Read more
We're pairing up later, splitting up faster, remarrying less often and increasingly deciding to avoid the whole quagmire by staying permanently single. In... Read more
Three therapists explore how to cool down the temperature with couples facing the crisis of infidelity. Read more
Two sisters find different ways to live with the nightmare of sexual abuse. Read more
From the July/August 1994 issue IN A WIDELY PUBLICIZED TRIAL last May anxiously followed by therapists around the country, a jury in Napa County... Read more
Cutting through the isolation of our self-declared tribes Read more
Every day, warring and desperate husbands and wives show up in our offices agonizing over divorce. Have we been too blithe in encouraging them to go ahead, too... Read more
Some intriguing findings refute popular myths about marriage. Read more
From the Networker archives, a therapist discusses homophobia within clinical practice. Read more
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