In Consultation
Don’t Hit Your Sister! Understanding the complexities of moral development
September/October 2015
How to help the concerned parents of aggressive kids understand the complexities of moral development.
Cloe Madanes on Advocating for the Most Vulnerable
March/April 2015
Let’s unite to stand up to vested interests that have taken over the mental health system.
A Doorway to Mystery
Creating a Sacred Space in Therapy
January/February 2015
As pressures mount to narrow the focus of psychotherapy into a medicalized, evidence-based approach, one of the teachers who first helped integrate mindfulness into psychotherapy argues for recognizing the role of ritual and embracing the sacred in our work.
Editor's Note
Growing Up In an Age of Distraction: Is There a Crisis of Pseudo-Connection in Today’s Families?
September/October 2014
Has the time come to consider whether the profound changes in our economy, technology, and culture over these last couple of decades have opened up a breach in the very experience of intimate connection in middle-class families around the world? And if so, what can we as therapists do about it?
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The Rise of the Two-Dimensional Parent
Are Therapists Seeing a New Kind of Attachment?
September/October 2014
We used to think that disordered attachment was the result of early parental neglect or abuse. But today, has a paradoxical mix of parental overinvolvement and inattention led to a social epidemic of pseudo-attachment?
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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?
Getting Unhooked
Connecting with Traumatized Kids Who Push Your Buttons
September/October 2014
Most parents “loan” children their adult regulatory system beginning at birth. But developmentally traumatized teens have missed out on this opportunity when they were little. Thus, a major goal of therapy is to backfill this absolutely essential experience, which is often not an easy job.
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Point of View
The Tribal Classroom: Applying attachment theory in schools
September/October 2014
Lou Cozolino believes that attachment theory and neuroscience may offer the key to transforming our troubled educational system.
Engaging the Emotional Brain
Highlights from Symposium 2014
May/June 2014
To get through to clients in our increasingly ADD culture, therapists must learn to evoke a deeper, more visceral engagement with them. At this year’s Networker Symposium, a lineup of innovators shared their wisdom about how to do just that.
Case Study
Rush to Judgment: Beware of the ADHD diagnosis
May/June 2014
Part of the epidemic of misdiagnosed ADHD in young children today results from a failure to understand how trauma often leads to difficulty learning in school.
