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Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more

Grieving the departed will always elicit startling feelings and strange behaviors. It may be less about truth than about timing. Read more

Attending to clients' mental health issues as part of a behavioral health team can be both stressful and exhilarating. Read more

As genomic science is increasingly able to map our future, therapists must help families make difficult decisions. Read more

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

How to continue to get the most out of life as you age. Read more

Learning to enhance performance by embracing doubt and fear. Read more

How does a therapeutic alliance become more than that? Read more

At last count, therapists could choose from among 500 different treatment techniques. But after all these years, there's still no evidence that the overall... Read more

A new generation of filmmakers is taking us beyond the Americocentric world of mainstream cinema. Read more

The tragic confrontation at Waco, Texas, in 1993 taught us much about what to do to help traumatized children, and perhaps even more about what not to do. Read more

Facing the challenge of working with a dissembling adolescent in a blended family means changing the "official story" of the problem. Read more

A session with a homeless client recalls a long-ago lesson about accomplishing an impossible task. Read more

Will all we've learned about treating combat stress and psychological trauma since Vietnam help us handle the tsunami of mental health problems the Iraq War is... Read more

A psychiatrist who's worked in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Israel leads a team of healthcare professionals into war-ravaged Gaza to see if Western healing methods can... Read more

A professor skeptical of the clinical value of family therapy may be doing more to extend the legacy of systems therapy than anyone working with adolescents... Read more

CBT offers a clinical toolbox that ensures that treatment never becomes merely unfocused chitchat. Read more

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

A therapist helps his anxious clients discover that be not resisting what the present moment offers, they can find a way out of their suffering. Read more

All of us ruminate, bringing up the cud of old, unresolved problems. But far from being idle mind chatter, most of these mental distractions are actually the... Read more

The search for the elusive experience of being "in the moment" isn't as complicated as you think. All it takes is a cup of tea, a walk, a question, a blessing... Read more

How would it feel to sit completely still for a week, not communicating with anyone, just tuning in to the seemingly chaotic jumble of your own thoughts? A... Read more

Esther Perel explains why new parents need to prioritize their sex lives instead of leaving at the bottom of the to-do list. Read more

And yet, I wondered, if we didn't have a theory of adult love and emotion, how could we truly understand what marriage was all about, let alone help couples... Read more

"Complicated grief" resulting from unresolved guilt, anger, shame, and regret can fester on for many years. Read more

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

Many therapists in once-thriving practices are reporting that these days, it's a battle to stay solvent. Read more

A veteran therapist draws from her years of clinical practice and personal experiences to meet every teenage client where they are. Read more

From July/August 2006 issue, a therapist shares how to help adult clients with ADHD be successful in therapy. Read more