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Beyond the Diet Mentality
Empowering Clients Through Attuned EatingAttuned eating can take people beyond the dead end of the diet mentality. Read more
The Mindful Swimmer
Staying Afloat in the Rough Seas of RelationshipMindfulness offers tools for navigating the stormy seas of a troubled relationship. Read more
Planting Season
A Therapist Searches for a Simpler Life"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
Hoop Dreams
On the Mean Streets of Dallas, Therapy’s a Whole New Ball GameA private practice therapist recalls his college days as a basketball player in a way he never dreamed of. Read more
Breathing Lessons
Unlearning the Mindset of TherapyWhile learning Qigong, a psychotherapist unlearns the Western mindset that has been keeping him, and his clients, stuck. Read more
The Mars & Venus Myth
Uncovering the Stealth Assault on FeminismThe Lawrence Summers controversy just brought to the surface the stealth assault on feminism that's reviving gender stereotypes of the 1950s. Read more
Honoring the Mission
Don’t Be too Quick to Ease the Caregiver’s BurdenWithout the emphasis at the outset on identifying, honoring, and sustaining the caregiver's mission, you're unlikely to ever progress. Read more
Failure to Launch
The Struggle to Leave Home in the 21st CenturyThe difficulty young people have leaving home is producing confusion amongst parents and their children. Read more
The Stages of Trauma Recovery
Principles of Effective TreatmentMy 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
Between Gay and Straight
Honoring a Client's Multiple IdentitiesA middle-aged man facing the challenge of coming out explores the uncharted territory of a "mixed-orientation marriage" Read more
Shame-O-Phobia
Why Men Fear TherapyShame 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
Lions Without a Cause
Men's Animal Instincts Don't Fit the Modern WorldLet'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
Women Treating Men
Therapy across the Gender DivideGender shapes relationship from the very first moment therapist meets client, especially when the client is male and the therapist is female. Read more
Holding Your Ground with Narcissistic Clients
What to do when your hot buttons get pushedSome 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
Going, Going, Gone
A young boy finds his Charon for the final journeyAn ill child finds his place among a group of other boys in aging men's bodies. Read more
The Long Shadow of Trauma
Childhood Abuse May Be Our Number One Public Health IssueAs 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
Therapy in the Danger Zone
Breaking the Cycle of Family TraumaThere'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
The Trauma Myth
Understanding the True Dynamics of Sexual AbuseTwenty-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
Bright-Sided
A Naysayer's Guide to Positive PsychologyA naysayers look at Martin Seligman and the Positive Psychology industry he helped create. Read more
Take a Breath
Using Yoga to Create a Sense of Well-Being in Your OfficeA variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more
Addicted to Sex
There are no shortcuts in treating SAEffective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. Commentary by Joe Kort. Read more
Tough Love
They Don't Make Fathers Like They Used ToFond 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
The Rise and Fall of PaxMedica
Welcome to the new era of brain-based therapyIn 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
Big Squeeze
No research? No reimbursementA 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
Brain to Brain: January/February 2010
The talking cure goes beyond wordsAs 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
The Brain's Rules for Change
Translating cutting-edge neuroscience into practiceFor the firs time, we're beginning to understand how to directly delete emotional meanings attributed to disturbing past events. Read more
Complexity Choir
The eight domains of self-integrationAs 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