Salvador Minuchin on What Today's Training Approaches Are Missing
September/October 2013
Trainees today are buried beneath textbooks on theory, bombarded by lectures on current research, and taught to be experts in a variety of methods. But where and when do they learn who they are and how to use their own selves in therapy?
Breaking Free of the Habitual
November/December 2013
Most clients have automatic habits of thinking, feeling, and verbalizing experiences that imprison them in a world of gray sameness. How do we help them escape? The most immediate way is to ditch your logical analysis and help them experience a felt sense.
A Group of Tibetan Refugees Find their Inner Guides
November/December 2013
How do you help 200 teenagers who’ve had to flee their country find a path to peace in a new place? A psychiatrist who’s traveled across the world to help traumatized refugees from Tibet guides them to a source of wisdom and hope within themselves.
Psychotherapy vs. Placebos * Frontline Psychotherapy
By Garry Cooper and Kathleen Smith
November/December 2013
Garry Cooper and Kathleen Smith
Celebrating the Craft at Symposium
May/June 2013
This year, 3,000 practitioners came to our annual Symposium to explore the fundamental question: are we any closer to unraveling the mysteries of psychotherapy than when Freud became the first therapist to complain about client “resistance”?
Peer Supervision Groups that Work: Three Steps That Make a Difference
May/June 2013
Peer consultation groups offer all kinds of rich possibilities for learning and collegial support---as long as you set them up properly.
What’s Wisdom Worth?
March/April 2013
The pioneers in our field—Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, Salvador Minuchin, and others—all recognized that they were providing something more than just technique. But does today’s short-term, empirically supported, manualized and medicalized psychotherapy really require its practitioners to be wise? Is wisdom even desirable?
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Can We Afford It?
March/April 2013
It wasn’t their research results or bestselling books that set apart Freud, Rogers, Minuchin, and Satir. They seemed to have a sense of what really mattered. But today, have conceptions about clinical wisdom become obsolete?
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Suffering and the Quest for Wisdom
By Kevin Anderson
March/April 2013
There’s something about healing from the deep emotional suffering that feels like death and rebirth—not the quick kind that some claim to receive in religious conversion. It’s the kind that asks us to be open to changing our contract with life in the most fundamental way.
Perspectives on Therapy’s Questions
March/April 2013
Excerpts from a series of interviews with some of the wisest souls in the field of psychology and psychotherapy on essential questions clinicians struggle with every day.
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