Editor's Note - September/October 2016
Clearly, therapists must always respond with empathy, understanding, and attuned clinical expertise to clients’ suffering. But the theme of this issue is... Read more
Hiding in Plain Sight
Clients' Symptoms Offer Clues to Their StrengthsAs therapists, we’re taught to be master detectives who methodically investigate our clients’ symptoms in search of a “culprit”—the source of their... Read more
Living Brave
From Vulnerability to DaringWith millions of people having seen her TED talks and read her books, researcher and bestselling author Brené Brown is a phenomenon. But aside from her... Read more
Mistaken Identity?
A Daughter Reflects on Her Father's Decision to Change GenderPulitzer Prize–winning author Susan Faludi explores the story of how the despotic father who’d once ruled her terrified family underwent sex reassignment... Read more
The Bonds of War
PTSD Reconsidered“In addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly... Read more
The Unassignables
What Really Gets Handed Down in a Family?A son’s decision to get married is a rite of passage for the entire family. Read more
Transcending Trauma
Learning How to Guide Devastated Clients Toward GrowthIn the early days of the trauma field, clients were seen as one-dimensional bundles of dysfunction and pain, who needed to relive their trauma before progress... Read more
The 2016 Election Is Raising Ethical Questions for Therapists
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... Read more
Teaching Couples to Tap
How to Use Acupoints to Overcome Blocks to IntimacyCould eliminating blocks in couples therapy be as simple as learning where to tap? Read more
High-Stakes Therapy
Eating Disorders Can Be a Matter of Life or DeathWhen it comes to eating disorders, therapy can be a matter of life and death. Read more
Point of View: Creatures of Habit
How Do We Change Our Most Rigid Routines?Discover the key to becoming less of a creature of habit. Read more
Borderline Personality Disorder Toolbox
Congratulations to Jeff Riggenbach, and his book, Borderline Personality Disorder Toolbox, for winning a silver medal at the 2017 IBPA Benjamin... Read more
CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques for Everyday Clinical Practice
New Cognitive Behavioral Approaches Apply CBT Skills to Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Trauma, PTSD and more Top Strategies for Emotional Regulation Best of... Read more
Introvert Power
Susan Cain Wants to Correct a Cultural BiasSusan 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... Read more
Kendall’s Prom
A Special Daughter’s Special NightAn young woman with autism celebrates a very special night. Read more
Has Porn Become a Public Health Crisis?
Has pornography become a public health crisis? Read more
Moving Through Grief
How Kübler-Ross’s Model Can Help Clients HealHow Kübler-Ross’s stage model of dealing with loss can help grieving clients heal. Read more
Have SSRIs Gotten a Bad Rep?
The Author of "Listening to Prozac" Thinks SoIn his latest book, Peter Kramer argues that medications represent the best, most effective tool for fighting the bleakness of depression. Read more
Life, Death, and a Good Cigar
Freud Chose to Face the End on His Own TermsFor most of us, death is a subject hovering in the shadows of our lives, willfully ignored until it’s suddenly standing rudely before us, the world’s worst... Read more
OCD and Children
It’s a Family AffairOCD in children can operate like a kind of cult leader, demanding acceptance of an extreme view of a perilous reality and offering solutions that can’t be... Read more
Editor's Note - July/August 2016
Today, with all the presumed advances therapists have made in reducing mental suffering from previously untreatable conditions, is there a solution, a cure, a... Read more
Learning to Manage the OCD Bully
A Therapeutic OdysseyAn OCD sufferer describes the frustrating stops and starts and misdirections of her circuitous search for help in escaping the maze of her family of origin and... Read more
Upside-Down Psychotherapy
Breaking the Rules with Our OCD ClientsIt’s now clear that much of what therapists do for people suffering from OCD actually worsens the problem. Providing empathic reassurance, rational... Read more
Upgrading the Software
A One-Session Cure for An Obnoxious HabitSometimes there’s no need for a detailed assessment of a client’s entire life history and their family relationships, especially when the desired outcome... Read more