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Attuned eating can take people beyond the dead end of the diet mentality. Read more

Mindfulness offers tools for navigating the stormy seas of a troubled relationship. Read more

"I realized that I'd never succeed as a therapist here unless I loosened up my customary boundaries between my professional and personal selves." Read more

A private practice therapist recalls his college days as a basketball player in a way he never dreamed of. Read more

While learning Qigong, a psychotherapist unlearns the Western mindset that has been keeping him, and his clients, stuck. Read more

The Lawrence Summers controversy just brought to the surface the stealth assault on feminism that's reviving gender stereotypes of the 1950s. Read more

Without the emphasis at the outset on identifying, honoring, and sustaining the caregiver's mission, you're unlikely to ever progress. Read more

The difficulty young people have leaving home is producing confusion amongst parents and their children. Read more

My intent in sharing my story was to help therapists understand the needs of a trauma victim and to suggest techniques and strategies to meet these needs at... Read more

A middle-aged man facing the challenge of coming out explores the uncharted territory of a "mixed-orientation marriage" Read more

Shame is the least understood dimension of men's inner experience—by both men themselves and the people who live with them. This lack of understanding may be... Read more

Let's face it: love means something quite different to men and women. A look at other species of social mammals offers some remarkable insights into the... Read more

Gender shapes relationship from the very first moment therapist meets client, especially when the client is male and the therapist is female. Read more

Although therapy is often considered a profession dominated by the female sensibility, a lifelong gym rat, much practiced in the arts of masculine aggression... Read more

Some practical guidelines for handling confrontive and critical clients. Read more

Listening to your inner therapist * Can we admit that therapy is sometimes harmful? * Botox's interference with emotions * The fearlessness--criminality link ... Read more

An ill child finds his place among a group of other boys in aging men's bodies. Read more

As the battles and controversies over the forthcoming DSM-V heat up, a determined group of trauma experts and researchers are mounting a passionate challenge... Read more

There's no more emotionally demanding work than that with an incestuous family. A therapist offers an uncensored look at the fear, loathing, and fascination of... Read more

Twenty-five years ago, it was considered a great advance when therapists first began to approach childhood abuse as a form of trauma. Now new research suggests... Read more

A naysayers look at Martin Seligman and the Positive Psychology industry he helped create. Read more

A variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more

Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. Commentary by Joe Kort. Read more

Fond memories of an old-fashioned father who believed in practicing tough love with his fists. Read more

This issue examines whether our increasing knowledge of all those multisyllabic brain processes has really made us more effective practitioners. Read more

In the 1970s, the rise of Prozac, the DSM-III, and "evidence-based" therapies brought the appearance of coherence and order to mental health professions under... Read more

A tipping point has been reached in the impact that psychotherapy research results, no matter of interest only among a small circle of academic, are going to... Read more

As we learn more about the brain, it becomes apparent that therapists need to pay at least as much attention to the body and nervous system (both their own and... Read more

For the firs time, we're beginning to understand how to directly delete emotional meanings attributed to disturbing past events. Read more

As unlikely as it may sound, the mathematics of complexity theory could offer us the key to the elusive secrets of mental health and personal well-being. Read more