The Gritty, Hot-Blooded Work of Couples Therapy
November/December 2011
This issue’s contributors aren’t just convinced that therapists should do more couples therapy, but that risk-taking and turning up the heat in the therapy room is the key to having real therapeutic impact with couples.
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Why We Avoid Doing Couples Therapy
By Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson
November/December 2011
As neuroscience increasingly shows how wired we are to our intimate partners, an important question arises for therapists: Why do we primarily continue to see people individually who are grappling with serious problems in their relationships?
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Let’s Stop Wasting Time
November/December 2011
Conventional therapeutic wisdom aside, people typically don’t hurt each other because they’re out of touch, unable to communicate, or can’t help themselves. All too frequently, they do hurtful things with impunity and entitlement simply to gratify their own needs.
Deciding: to be Right or be Married?
November/December 2011
Do you want to be right or be married? Okay, now pause, think, breathe . . . and choose between First Consciousness and Second Consciousness.
Treating the Mixed-Agenda Couple
November/December 2011
At least 30 percent of couples coming to therapy have fundamentally different agendas about whether to try to save the marriage. If we’re ever going to improve our success rates, we need to address that ambivalence from the moment they arrive in our offices.
Trauma Below and Above Ground
November/December 2011
- Chilean miners' long-term trauma - Training good therapists - The question of bullying
From Estrangement to Engagement
November/December 2011
Helping Fathers and Daughters Connect
The Five “A’s” of Transformation: The Enneagram as a Clinical Tool
November/December 2011
The Enneagram and the 5 A’s of transformation.
Our Potential for Good: Altruism as an Evolutionary Imperative
November/December 2011
Psychologist Darcher Keltner believes that underestimating our capacity for altruism does human nature a disservice.
The Heart of Darkness: Plumbing the Nature of Evil
November/December 2011
Plumbing the eternal question: Why are there bad people?
The Fundamental Things
November/December 2011
The times and tides of 33 years of marriage