Inside the Heart of Healing
When Moment-to-Moment Awareness Isn't Enough
September/October 2015
As the mindfulness movement sweeps through our field, many therapists are discovering that traditional contemplative practices grounded in detached self-observation have limits. When we’re overwhelmed with intense and disturbing emotions, just observing moment-to-moment experience is often not enough.
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Clinician's Digest
Is Ketamine the New Antidepressant to Rave About?
May/June 2015
Is a new generation of antidepressants on the way?
Case Study
Rediscovering Happiness: The Use of Positive Childhood Triggers in Psychotherapy
May/June 2015
To create deep change, we need to help people mine the sources of intense pleasure in their lives, wherever they may find them.
Mary Pipher on Psychotherapy in the Age of Overwhelm
March/April 2015
It’s time we address the psychological toll of the daily bombardment of information that permeates our lives.
Bookmarks
Lost in the Maze: Finding the exit from OCD
March/April 2015
Review: The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
Finding an exit from the bewildering maze of a disorder that confounds many clinicians.
Case Study
Voices of Reason: Empowering clients to alter their internal experiences
January/February 2015
The case of a young man hearing voices shows how even problems that first appear to be extreme can be resolved by empowering clients to alter subtle aspects of their internal experience.
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Bubble-Wrapping Our Children
The Perils of Overprotective Parenting
September/October 2014
We've become so focused on keeping children safe that we exaggerate the dangers they face despite the fact that they’ve never been safer. Still, no amount of statistical reports can get parents to stop hovering over their child. What’s a therapist to do?
The Downside of Happiness
Beware of What You Wish For
September/October 2014
Although happiness is widely beneficial, organizing one’s life around it can lead to a great deal of effort and time being spent unwisely. Trying too hard to be happy interferes with the pleasure, engagement, and meaning we could otherwise find in the world.
Editor's Note
Depression, the most important public health issue in the world.
November/December 2014
Do therapists have a responsibility to educate people about society's role in generating unprecedented levels of depression?
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The Depression Epidemic
Can Mood Science Save Us?
November/December 2014
It’s time to get beyond simplistic notions about “chemical imbalances” and finally reckon with how deeply rooted depression is in the uncertainties and false values of our 21st-century consumer culture.
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