Are You a "Permaparent"?
Your Adult Child Just Moved Back Home. But Is It Normal?Today, about 25 million young adults between between 18 and 34 are currently residing with their parents. In its basic form, this story holds that most... Read more
VIDEO: Diane Poole Heller on the Hidden Capabilities of Trauma Survivors
Watch as a Traumatized Client Taps Into a Wellspring of Healing in an Actual SessionThink all traumatized clients are shut-down and energy-sapped? Think again. In this clip from her Networker Symposium Keynote, "Creating a Corrective Emotional... Read more
VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Power of Emotion
The Secret Ingredient in Good TherapyEmotion is the most important motivating force bringing clients to our offices in the first place. Nevertheless, therapists are often strangely queasy in the... Read more
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
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