A Clinician’s Guide
By Jay Efran and Mitchell Greene
May/June 2012
Our understanding of what happens when we weep hasn't progressed much beyond Freud's theory of catharsis. However, knowing how our nervous systems work can help guide what we do—and don’t do—when clients burst into tears.
Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Help a Panicked Client: From Certainty to Uncertainty
March/April 2012
Often clients come to therapy to resolve ambivalence or because they can’t make up their minds. But sometimes, the problem is that they’re too certain about things they should be uncertain about.
A Hospice Social Worker’s Take on Inside Curveballs
July/August 2012
When something is coming at you that may cause pain or self-doubt, it’s natural to want to duck.
What Neuroscience is Teaching Us About Connecting With Our Kids
By Jonathan Baylin and Daniel Hughes
January/February 2012
Our growing understanding of attachment and the processes that shape the parenting brain are opening new possibilities for helping stressed-out parents who are turned off to their own children.
A New Vision of Integrative Mental Health
By Andrew Weil
January/February 2012
An alternative to the old talking cure is expanding the knowledge base of psychotherapy as we recognize the role that exercise, nutrition, spirituality, mind-body approaches, and lifestyle can play in enhancing our clinical effectiveness.
It’s More Complicated Than That: Probing the complexities of the antidepressants debate
January/February 2012
The recent spate of negative research findings and unfavorable media coverage of antidepressant drugs have obscured some important clinical issues.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Adult AD/HD is Too Often Unrecognized
By Gina Pera
March/April 2011
Adult ADHD too often goes unrecognized.
Extended Life, Elongated Grief
July/August 2011
As the writers in this issue powerfully demonstrate, medical science has made extended dying and its impact on relatives and loved ones—what psychologist Joseph Nowinski, in the issue’s cover story, calls “the new grief. . . the gritty business of living with slow death”—increasingly common, even normal.
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Long, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
July/August 2011
The increasing ability of modern medicine to arrest or slow terminal illness means that never before has death been such an extended process for so many. But as a culture, we're only just beginning to face the deep ambivalence this creates for both patient and family.
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Creating New Paths for Change: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World
July/August 2011
In an age of cynicism, a refreshing look at “the social cure.”
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