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A man who grew up rescuing the women around him learns that there's no saving someone from sorrow. Sometimes the best we can do—all we can do—is offer a... Read more

If therapy is in some sense a confrontation in which you must come face-to-face with your disowned self, it's a real advantage to choose a therapist who's your... Read more

In a single, unforeseen moment, a self-lacerating young woman takes a risk and discovers, deep in her bones, why we're alive. Read more

Is it appropriate to bring up the use of subtly racist language in a session, even if it doesn’t deal with the client’s presenting issue? Always, says one... Read more

For more than 20 years, Bessel van der Kolk has been in the forefront of research in the psychobiology of trauma and in the quest for more effective... Read more

Thrivers are not Pollyannas. They are not blindly optimistic and are far from showing the often irritating feigned cheerfulness that can result from trying to... Read more

In our rush to remove the symptoms of anxiety, we too often ignore the client's hidden system of personal meaning. Focusing on that murky inner world can both... Read more

The Family Dialogue Project grew out of my attempt to help therapists, abuse survivors, and their families caught in the meshes of terrible conflicts from... Read more

In our treatment of survivors over the past two decades, the therapeutic pendulum has swung from complete denial to an overfocus on the wounded inner child... Read more

Everyone's reconciliation story is different, but everyone can reconcile in one of four ways. Read more

Many therapists fail to recognize that sexual desire doesn't always play by the rules of good citizenship. By counseling political correctness in the bedroom... Read more

A book review of Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them? A Scientific Collaboration with the Dalai Lama Read more

A book review of Mad in America by Robert Whitaker Read more

Self-Described grouch Martin Seligman, the father of the positive psychology movement, is trying to turn happiness into a science. Read more

Book reviews of The Soul of Recovery; Trauma Practice in the Wake of September 11, 2001; and Love at Goon Park Read more

Here are the mistakes both beginning and experienced couples therapists commit, and how you can avoid them. Read more

After the publication of my book, 'I Don't Want to Talk about It,' I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the... Read more

A book review of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine Read more

In her new book, The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan has tried to probe the root of what makes intimate partnership between men and women so difficult. What... Read more

Increasingly, therapists are trying to make sense of the cavalcade of neuroscientific discoveries regularly trumpeted in the research literature and the... Read more

A book review of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors: Strengthening Attachment Bonds by Susan M. Johnson Read more

"I doubt that I would fit many people's image of a therapist who would violate sexual boundaries with a client. Before it happened, I certainly did not fit my... Read more

A book review of For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly Read more

Helping her make a connection between her emotions and the traumatic event was an important milestone for Celeste, because it enabled her to viscerally... Read more

Book reviews of The Noonday Demon; Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change; Whispers from the East; and The Shattered Self. Read more

A take-charge clinician meets his match and finally learns to listen to his clients-and himself. Read more

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As the digital revolution permeates and alters our lives, therapists are increasingly called upon to become the guides to a balance between the allure of... Read more

A good education is preventive medicine. It strengthens one's mental, emotional and spiritual immune system. Read more

Therapists who can surf the transference and countertransference of chronic disappointment by being mindful of their own inner states can find creative... Read more