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A revolution in how people access and use pornography has taken the therapy community by surprise. Now some experts believe that an epidemic of porn use is... Read more

Open porn use introduces a relational question that most couples never face: how to live with the knowledge that your partner's erotic fantasy-world often... Read more

Whether they know it or not, what most people are looking for in sex therapy isn't so much a change in specific behaviors as a way of developing a more... Read more

How to get through to clients caught in fight-flight-freeze mode. Read more

Turning problems to be diagnosed and medication into skills to be taught. Read more

EMDR helps a young Iraq War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

Strategic therapy is less about technique than a search for the information that'll illuminate the solution to your client's problem. Read more

A clinician explains how to help your supervisees practice therapy from the heart. Read more

This article first appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. There are many ways to say “I don’t know.” She was a diminutive woman... Read more

This article first appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. Mindfulness has become one of the hottest growth areas in the field of psychotherapy in the... Read more

Modern therapy has given scant attention to morally elevated emotions like awe, gratitude, and admiration, resulting in a skewed picture of how people actually... Read more

When TV finally came, in the early '50s, the world it brought into our living rooms was black and white, and dumbed way down. Newsmen now had faces, and, as... Read more

While some warn that the conveyor belt that once transported adolescents into adulthood has broken down, other insist the increasing number of adult children... Read more

As the boomers discover the joys and sorrows of becoming grandparents, they're putting their own generational stamp on a role that's as ancient as parenthood. Read more

Although Salvador Minuchin is arguably the most influential clinician of the last half-century, his work is light-years away from the routinized approaches... Read more

What do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more

Given that most couples never manage to change each other very much, teaching them to forgive each other's imperfections is a vastly underutilized therapeutic... Read more

When a child is diagnosed with an autism disorder, everything in a family changes. Good-enough parenting must give way to the demands of uber-parenting: always... Read more

The controversy over whether the ever-expanding number of recommended vaccines is putting children at risk for autism. Read more

Carrying the Hope: Autism's 5 Core Deficits Defined Read more

Constant Uncertainty about who's a friend and who's a foe, the mundane chaos of the classroom, rules that always seem to be changing—an ordinary day at... Read more

To go through life with Asperger's as an adult is like walking onto a stage and being the only actor who doesn't know the lines or plot. But as the condition... Read more

The worry and wonder of living with Asperger's syndrome Read more

You think the toboggan ride of your 401(k) has been rough? A survivor of the Great Depression muses on what that era taught her about managing the unmanageable. Read more

More and more chronic pain patients are being referred to therapists after their physicians conclude that they show every appearance of being healed. Read more

A client's unexpected announcement makes a therapist confront her illusions of invulnerability. Read more

Many of us struggle to achieve some balance between our work and the rest of our lies. But in today's world, living a more fulfilled life may actually require... Read more

Clinicians have long considered theories that emphasize inborn predispositions as antiquated and even reactionary. but the work of researchers like Jerome... Read more

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... Read more

What does the newly passed mental health parity law mean for your practice? Read more