Empowering Today's Parental Authority Figures
Ron Taffel on What Families Can't Function WithoutRon Taffel discusses how Generation X and Millennials handle authority and raising kids differently than their parents. Read more
Taking Off The Gloves
David Schnarch On How Confrontation Speeds Up Couples TherapyCouples therapist David Schnarch shares how speed helps give relationships hope. Read more
Responding to the Critics of DSM-5
Darrel Regier On Why Diagnostic Changes Were MadeDespite the number of criticisms it has incurred, there was a method to the so-called madness of DSM-5. Read more
VIDEO: Anxiety as a GPS
Danie Beaulieu On How to Make Panic An AllyDanie Beaulieu explains how panic can function as the voice of clients’ internal GPS, telling them when they are making a “wrong turn” in their lives. Read more
Rethinking the Autonomic Nervous System
Stephen Porges on a Popular Neuroscientific MisconceptionFor decades therapists have been taught that there are two sides of the autonomic nervous system complementing each other. But according to Stephen... Read more
What's The Value Of A Diagnostic Category In The DSM?
Gary Greenberg on the Role of Economic Factors in the Shaping of the DSMGary Greenberg deconstructs the DSM and how it affects the field and your practice. Read more
The Selling of Psychotherapy
Therapist and business coach Lynn Grodzki provides an eye-opening road-map to both the shift in clients’ attitude and how we as therapists can most... Read more
Closing The Deal With Clients
What We Can Learn from SalespeopleWhat do you say to potential clients when they first call you or come in for a consultation? We may resist the idea, but in this initial phase, therapists face... Read more
How to Help Learning Stick for Clients
What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Psychotherapy?It’s usually easy to see when clients are tuned out or turned off, simply not absorbing what you’re trying to get across. What’s puzzling is when... Read more
A Suicide Note In Crayon
Expecting the Unexpected at PS 48To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected. Read more
Wearing Your Heart on Your Face
The Polyvagal Circuit in the Consulting RoomPsychophysiologist Stephen Porges’s research on the polyvagal nervous system provides insight into the evolutionary roots of trauma and anxiety, and how... Read more
Evoking the Inner Artist: September/October 2013
How to Replace Pathology with CreativityWhen clients feel blocked, therapists can help them tap their inner artist and view feelings of vulnerability, doubt, and fear as part of a creative... Read more
What's In A Brand?
What Campbell’s and Dr. Phil KnowFor therapists, traditional ways of getting the word out—an ad here, a few hints to colleagues there, even a fancy website—just won’t cut it anymore. In... Read more
More More Time
Discovering the Endless PresentA new retiree discovers the elusive secret of the endless present. Read more
Talking on the Edge
Assessing the Risk of SuicideMost clinicians already know the basic questions to ask about a client’s suicidality, but it’s important to go beyond a rote assessment to get a fuller... Read more
The Pathologizing of Everyday Life
When Did Sadness Become a Disease?The increasingly blurry distinction between normal and abnormal not only makes us easy targets for Big Pharma’s advertising, but also distracts us from the... Read more
The Therapist’s Most Important Tool
Salvador Minuchin on What Today's Training Approaches Are MissingTrainees today are buried beneath textbooks on theory, bombarded by lectures on current research, and taught to be experts in a variety of methods. But where... Read more
Shopping For Therapy
Yesterday’s Patients Are Today’s Educated ConsumersThe expectation of a full caseload of clients who don’t question the length or expense of treatment belongs to a former age. Like it or not, therapists who... Read more
You’re Never Too Old to Change
Michael Gelb On The Most Effective Methods Of ChangeMichael Gelb discusses time-tested wisdom that helps people change their lives. Read more
Finding the Missing Link to Chronic Pain
Maggie Phillips On The Levels Of Unreleased TraumaMaggie Phillips describes how attachment issues can play a big part in unreleased trauma. Read more
Editor's Note: September/October 2013
Keeping Private Practice AliveIf we wish to stay professionally alive, it’s time we recognize that the idea that we must choose between being dedicated clinicians and being smart business... Read more
Teaching Neuroscience to Our Clients
How One Client Effectively Applied Dan Siegel’s Neurobiology LessonPsychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon listens to Dan Siegel about neuron "sponges," empathy, and how it all impacts depression. Read more