Does Your Child Need Moral Guidance?
The Four Components of ConscienceBy Lawrence Cohen - A great deal of parental worry comes from not realizing that the aspects of a healthy conscience develop unevenly and that the road to... Read more
VIDEO: Peter Levine's Somatic Tools for Self-Soothing
Creating a Path to Client IndependenceOften, traumatized clients find that they become dependent on their therapists to help them handle their extreme emotional states. But according to Peter... Read more
VIDEO: Addressing Political Stress in the Consulting Room
Reevaluating What's Appropriate to Discuss in TherapyIt's no surprise that, with all the political infighting going on, many people are anxious about the direction of our country. But is there room to discuss... Read more
What Basketball Taught Me About Therapy
Learning to Stay in the Game with Challenging ClientsBasketball has taught me many lessons. I learned about trust, relationships, and teamwork. I learned the power to regulate feelings. It would shape my... Read more
Past and Future
A Family Dinner Leads to Reflecting on a LegacyTo my mother, who inherited the holiday after my grandmother's death, producing the seder was nothing short of a colossal chore—a feeling she'd communicate... Read more
VIDEO: Esther Perel on the New Rules of Love and Commitment
How Boomers Shaped Millennial RomanceCouples therapist Esther Perel has been recognized as one of the world’s most original and insightful thinkers about couples, sexuality, and the peculiar... Read more
Confessions of a Millennial Therapist
Finding My #DreamjobAfter careful review of the usual stereotypes—technologically adroit, social media fixated, with a touch of narcissism—one 30-something therapist belatedly... Read more
The Millennial Effect
How Young Clients Are Leading Therapists to New PlacesAs they’re about to surpass baby boomers as the largest generation, millennials are coming to dominate the population of therapy consumers. But their impact... Read more
Bumps in the Road
Accompanying Young Clients Through Life’s TransitionsMany young people transitioning into the uncertainties of adulthood today are feeling more scared and alone than ever. One therapist has discovered that a key... Read more
Generations in Jail
When Crime Is a Family ValueA new book explores how criminal behavior gets handed down in families from one generation to the next. Read more
The Inheritance
A Father Passes on a Complicated LegacySometimes family legacies can stir up complicated feelings and outright conflict. Read more
Health Comes in All Sizes
The HAES Approach to Countering Weight StigmaA paradigm shift around weight and wellness is taking on old stigmas. Read more
The Man Who Became an Adjective
No One Writes about Psychology Like Malcolm GladwellNo one writes about psychology with more irresistible readability—and book sales—than 2019 Symposium featured speaker Malcolm Gladwell. Read more
The Secret of Getting Through
A Profile of an Impressively Unimpressive TherapistA quick glance a therapist whose young clients rave about her. Read more
“Nobody Knows!”
Helping Introverts Appreciate Their StrengthsA young introvert in college learns to embrace her temperament as a gift, rather than a problem. Read more
The Podcast Boom
Is It for You?Podcasts have exploded in numbers and popularity. What do mental health professionals need to know about this way of expanding their audience and their... Read more
Editor's Note - November/December 2018
Here, we focus on today’s young adults (many of whom bristle at the label millennials). Not only have they ushered in many of the changes taking place in the... Read more
Listening to the Next Generation
Are We Hearing What They Have to Say?Admitting her bafflement with some of her millennial clients, a veteran therapist accepts her ignorance and gets advice from some of the young people in her... Read more
Resisting Matrimania
A Conversation with Bella DePauloAuthor and researcher Bella DePaulo says it’s time to start seeing the growing population of single adults as something more than just people unable to find... Read more
The Flow of Dialogue
Three Steps to Effective ConversationBy Oren Jay Sofer - Dialogue is a lot like dancing. It takes time to learn the basics, but when we’re conversing smoothly with someone else, it can be... Read more
Esther Perel on the Paradox of Masculinity
What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Man Today?Feminism has given women a new narrative, but it hasn’t offered men a particularly new one that they can identify with. Ultimately, the lives of women will... Read more
VIDEO: Dafna Lender on Harnessing Your Social Engagement System
Strategies for Building the Therapeutic Alliance More EasilyWe all know therapists who seem magically able to establish a powerful sense of trust and connection with even the most distrusting clients. But are there... Read more