May/June 2011

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Mastery

The Road To Mastery

What’s Missing from this Picture?

Scott Miller & Mark Hubble

Therapists usually enter the field because they’re drawn to it and have innate capacities to do the work. But whether they excel depends largely on their professional community. Unfortunately, current psychotherapy practice doesn’t foster excellence as much as mediocrity, inertia, and an intense fear of change. Read More
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Building A Culture Of Excellence

Anatomy of an Agency that Works

Bob Bertolino

We all have stories about the bureaucracies that stifle clinical creativity and seem to exist primarily to generate meaningless paperwork. Here’s a tale about a community agency that actually works, and how it got that way. Read More
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What Therapists Want

It’s Certainly Not Money or Fame!

Barry L. Duncan

A close-up look at a 20-year, multinational study that captures the heart of therapists’ aspirations—and perhaps the soul of our professional identity. Read More
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Opening The Path

From What Is to What Can Be

Barry L. Duncan

Down for the count, a therapist again discovers that even the most hopeless sessions can have a positive outcome if you stay with the process. Read More
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From Isolation To Connection

How to Create a Community of Practice

Peter Fraenkel

A modest proposal about how to get out of your cubbyhole, enliven your conversations with others in the field, and experience a new kind of professional community. Read More

Extra Feature

Mapping the Future

Symposium Highlight

Mapping The Future

Symposium 2011 Charts Terra Incognita

Mary Sykes Wylie

Emerging from their monastic little cells, 3,000 psychotherapists had a schmooze-fest celebrating the power of face-to-face connection and joined forces to envision the future. Read More