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Viktor Frankl's Classic Has Just Been Released for Young Adults!
A YA Edition Brings "Man's Search for Meaning" to a New GenerationPsychiatrist Viktor Frankl is best known for is his extraordinary first-person narrative about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, as told in Man’s... Read more
VIDEO: Combining Trauma Treatment with Family Therapy
Making Sure Treatment Sticks Outside the Therapy RoomFar too often, trauma survivors appear to progress in therapy and then go home and fall right back into the same old patterns of negative emotion and... Read more
Bringing Dreams into the Consulting Room
Helping Clients Awaken More Fully to the Life Around ThemBy Richard Handler - Throughout history, humans have tried to make sense of the baffling, nonlinear fleetingness of dreams. In A History of Last Night's... Read more
VIDEO: Julie Gottman on Making Couples' Life Dreams Come True
The Importance of Creating "Shared Meaning"According to renowned couples therapist Julie Gottman, one of the main predictors of a romantic relationship's success or failure is how well partners can... Read more
On the Front Lines of Crisis Work
What Keeps a Clinician Going in High-Stakes Therapy?By Gary Weinstein - I've been doing crisis work for nearly 30 years. I've confronted a number of forks in my professional road, opportunities to take a less... Read more
We Weren't Meant to Live in "Screenworld"
Why Therapy is the Counterculture We NeedNowadays, you see screens at checkout counters and laundromats, in restaurants and waiting rooms, and on the dashboards of cars and in their back seats. Isn't... Read more
In spite of what seems to be as many different therapy methods as stars in the sky, and in spite of reams of outcome studies, no empirically studied model... Read more
When Helping Doesn't Help
Why Some Clients May Not Want to ChangeRather than just commiserating with clients’ misery, most therapists want to engage in more active forms of helping. So we try to persuade clients... Read more
How Psychotherapy Lost Its Magick
The Art of Healing in an Age of ScienceStudies show more people pay for the services of advisors claiming special powers than see mental health practitioners. How can mentalists and mediums be... Read more
Affair Repair
Lessons on Changing DirectionsCouples therapy can be difficult and dicey, especially when there’s an affair in the mix. To keep afloat in the emotional tumult, most therapists cling to... Read more
Adjusting the Unconscious
Making Quick Work of Lasting ChangeSome claim that much of psychotherapy is a pseudoscience, promising far more than it can deliver, with lengthy, expensive interventions for the common problems... Read more
The Immigrant's Odyssey
Trauma, Loss, and the Promise of HealingImmigration is often a trauma that leaves indelible marks on those who’ve left behind family, cultural values, and status. Perhaps more than any other client... Read more
Therapists respond to the increasingly popular notion that we have a Millennial crisis on our hands. Read more
Speak Easy
Keeping It Real with Your Teen ClientsHow to keep it real with teenage clients. Read more
Navigating the Bipolar Spectrum
Diagnosing Mood Disorders Requires Great CareDiagnosing and treating mood disorders can be tricky, especially when it comes to an often overlooked, subtle form of bipolar II. Read more
Feeling Anxious?
A Longtime Researcher Weighs InHow can you keep on top of the proliferation of anxiety treatments today? Read more
Hearing Voices
Eavesdropping on Our Inner ConversationsThe Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves Making sense of the particular internal mix of words, conversation, music, and images... Read more
Leaping for Joy
The Secret Lives of ChildrenRecalling a time when kids were supposed to be out of the house—and their parents’ hair—as much as possible. Read more
Is It Possible to Divorce Well?
Three Buddhist Practices for Helping Partners Split AmicablyThree simple steps from Buddhism to help hostile spouses cultivate a spirit of nonviolence, generosity, and compassion toward their ex-partners. Read more
VIDEO: Janet Edgette on Getting Real with Kids in Therapy
The Perils of Being Too EmpathicWe all want to build strong relationships with our clients, but when working with adolescents, don’t overdo the empathy, says therapist Janet Edgette... Read more
VIDEO: Dan Siegel Explains Why Brain Integration is the Key to Good Mental Health
Here's What a Healthy Mind Looks LikeAccording to Dan Siegel, understanding the connection between the brain and the miraculously various operations of the human mind and body is the first step in... Read more
VIDEO: A Breathing Antidote for Stress Responses
A Six-Minute Exercise for Overcoming StressOur depressed clients don’t only exhibit their symptoms through speech and vocal tone. You see them in their body language too—in slouching torsos, folded... Read more
Changing How You Think About Weight
Four Steps to Transform Your Internalized Views About Body SizeBy Judith Matz - I’ve come to believe that the way we as therapists feel about our clients’ body size is not only a clinical concern, but a social justice... Read more
VIDEO: Maggie Phillips on the Four Levels of Traumatic Pain
Exploring an Uncommon Side Effect of TraumaWhen Maggie Phillips and Peter Levine co-authored Freedom from Pain, they aimed to explore what’s been missing from the field’s treatment of chronic... Read more
This look back at the last 40 years of this magazine and our profession comes at a time when we could all use perspective on what we’ve learned from the... Read more
Psychotherapy's Pilgrimage
Shaping the Consciousness of Our TimeDespite what grad school textbooks may imply, therapy movements are more than a set of theories and techniques. They’re about what it means to be a human... Read more
Then, Now & Tomorrow
Oral Histories of Psychotherapy 1978-2017A group of innovators and leaders look back over different realms of therapeutic practice and offer their view of the eureka moments, the mistakes and... Read more
Turns in the Road
Highlights from the Networker JourneyOut 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... Read more
Healing after the Election
What Therapists and Their Minority Clients Are SayingWhat minority clients are saying to their therapists after the election, and how therapists are responding. Read more
The Oldest Guy on the Team
Running for Your LifeThe joys of being the oldest guy on the team. Read more