Examining the Science of Torture: The Price of Coercive Interrogation
By Diane Cole
March/April 2016
Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. A startling new book exposes how much more the military’s embrace of enhanced interrogation tactics in the war on terror was influenced by Hollywood, rather than scientific evidence.
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Extending the Circle of Care
By Chris Lyford
May/June 2016
A grassroots effort to serve the mental health needs of veterans enables therapists to extend to their impact.
Introvert Power: Susan Cain Wants to Correct a Cultural Bias
July/August 2016
Susan Cain, the bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, believes that our world has been ruled by extroverts long enough.
The 2016 Election Is Raising Ethical Questions for Therapists
September/October 2016
It used to be an axiom for clinicians that therapeutic conversation and politics don’t mix. But in this high-stakes presidential election, some therapists aren’t so sure.
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Creatures of Habit
September/October 2016
Discover the key to becoming less of a creature of habit.
Mistaken Identity? A Daughter Reflects on Her Father's Decision to Change Gender
September/October 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Susan Faludi explores the story of how the despotic father who’d once ruled her terrified family underwent sex reassignment surgery late in life.
Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy Offers
By Sherry Turkle
November/December 2016
Conditioned by the experience of life on the screen, clients today find it harder to concentrate on face-to-face conversation. They may not even see its value, feeling more comfortable with the self they can present through their digital devices. More than ever, the mores of therapy—the value therapy places on being with, forming an empathic bond, and the quiet attention necessary to do this—has become a crucial cultural corrective.
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A World Where Life Is Always Elsewhere
November/December 2016
Every day, every moment, we must wade through the flood of incoming alerts and emails urgently demanding our time and attention, all the while knowing that there’s an infinite ocean of stuff online that waits for us at all hours to stick our toe in so that it may then slowly begin to swallow us up . . . until we drown.
Trigger Warnings: Compassion or Coddling?
November/December 2016
Therapists wade into the controversy about trigger warnings for potentially disturbing college course material.
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Are We Still in the Dark?
January/February 1991
Back in the therapeutic Dark Ages of the 1990s, many clinicians, like the rest of the population, were still just beginning to confront their own discomfort with gender and sexual nonconformity. Today—when an “unstraight” client might be transgender, gender fluid, agender, gender dysphoric, or genderqueer—this article on homophobia, which seemed daring 25 years ago, may strike some readers as an almost quaint reflection of a simpler time.
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