New Technologies for Today’s Practitioners
Using Virtual Reality to treat PTSDThe increasingly accessible and inexpensive technology of virtual reality now enables us to incorporate digital Skinner boxes in our practices that can enhance... Read more
The Transgender Journey
What Role Should Therapists Play?Parents typically view their children in the largely gendered terms society lays out for them. Rearranging that internal mind map requires tremendous effort... Read more
The Aftermath of the Paris Attacks
Therapists reflect on the terror attack in Paris. Read more
VIDEO: Using Yoga to Calm the Revved-Up Client
The Yoga Breath’s Universal ApplicationRich Simon interviews Amy Weintraub about the use of yoga in therapy. Read more
VIDEO: Susan Johnson on Attachment Issues in the Bedroom
How to Help Couples Have "Hold Me Tight" ConversationsIn a brief video, Susan explains how to create moments of emotional sharing so deep that they automatically translate into couples' lives. Read more
The Art of Presenting
Understanding What Your Audience NeedsSome tips on the do’s and don’ts of giving a good workshop. Read more
The Mystery of Eroticism
Rethinking Conventional WisdomIt’s long been the conventional wisdom among couples therapists that if couples fix the emotional issues in their relationship, their sexual lives will... Read more
The Remarriage Triangle
Working with Later-Life Recouplers and their Grown ChildrenTherapists need to be prepared to go against the conventional clinical wisdom in helping later-life recouplers and stepfamilies handle the unique challenges... Read more
The Sex-Starved Marriage
A sex-starved marriage isn’t about the number of times per week or per month people are actually having sex. It’s one in which one spouse is longing for... Read more
Who’s the Grown-Up Here?
Helping parents abandon the “buddy” systemFamily physician and psychologist Leonard Sax insists that too many parents these days misunderstand the role they should play in their children’s lives. Read more
The Last Dance
Awakening a Mother’s Joyful SpiritToward the end of her life, a woman turns back the clock by performing the goofy ballet of her youth. Read more
Inside Hookup Culture
Are We Having Fun Yet?On college campuses across the country, hooking up has all but replaced traditional, old-school dating rituals. With its rawness and frantic incoherence... Read more
The Dance of Sex
If you’re going to help a couple get closer and really learn to work harmoniously with one another, whether in bed or anywhere else, the key is helping... Read more
Losing Our War on Stress
It’s time to reconsider our approachPsychologist Kelly McGonigal believes that stress isn’t the public health menace it’s usually made out to be—our compulsion to avoid it is often the... Read more
The Unspeakable Language of Sex
Why Are We Still so Tongue-Tied?If you’re like most couples therapists, you know how to help partners communicate more clearly, handle conflict with less uproar, and connect more... Read more
Editor's Note - January/February 2016
I suspect that no matter how sophisticated we become about sex in the abstract, there’s some half-hidden, unacknowledged suspicion within most of us that... Read more
Transforming Sexual Narratives
From Dysfunction to DiscoveryTherapists too often ignore the importance of the longstanding, often unconscious stories that partners carry with them into their sexual relationship. Helping... Read more