Connecting with the Shut-down Client
Helping A Combat Vet Face His VulnerabilityResonating with clients’ inner experience is key to working effectively with emotion in therapy. With traumatized and shutdown clients, however, it is easy... Read more
In Praise of Therapeutic Crying
Therapy’s Best Kept SecretToo many therapists today confuse the healing release of tears with the helpless despair triggered by reliving traumatizing memories in therapy. Read more
Why We Cry
A Clinician’s GuideOur understanding of what happens when we weep hasn't progressed much beyond Freud's theory of catharsis. However, knowing how our nervous systems work can... Read more
Using Men’s Groups to Enhance Couples Therapy
Men Helping MenFor men who still consider entering couples therapy a stroll into a lion’s den of shame, humiliation and failure, a men’s groups can be both a crucial... Read more
Symposium 2012
Embracing the New WisdomAndrew Weil, Mary Pipher, and Dan Siegel, along with 150 other presenters, not only helped the Networker Symposium celebrate its 35th anniversary, but... Read more
Editor's Note: May/June 2012
Our Emotions: Unruly, Unnerving, InvaluableThis issue maps out not only what the latest science tells us about how emotion works, but also how therapists can more fully acknowledge within themselves the... Read more
System One Meets System Two
Daniel Kahneman Expands Our VisionDaniel Kahneman, the founder of behavioral economics, has written a comprehensive dissection of the reasoning mind, which should be on every therapist’s... Read more
The Latest Advances in Marketing Your Practice
The SoLoMo RevolutionThe SoLoMo revolution is transforming the way therapists can generate client referrals on the Internet. Read more
Mary Pipher on Activism
Applying our Healing Skills in the Wider WorldBestselling author and retired psychotherapist Mary Pipher makes a case for therapists’ having the know-how to become effective social activists---and for... Read more
"Tweenitis"
Mastering the art of ‘gruntology’The father of an 11-year-old struggles to master the language of gruntology. Read more
The Power of Emotion in Therapy
How to Harness this Great MotivatorNeuroscientists recently established emotion is the prime force shaping how we cope with life’s challenges. Psychotherapists are beginning to learn how to... Read more
Is Psychotherapy Getting Better?
A Progress Report on the Science—and Art—of the Psychotherapy FieldWhat do we know today about the effectiveness of psychotherapy that we didn’t know 30 years ago? Even more important, how do we improve our treatments? Read more
A Brief History of Psychotherapy
A Mosaic of the Psychotherapy Networker, 1982-2012Over the years, our front-of-the-book department has not only given readers plenty of tasty factoids to chew on, but also revealed how the seasons of the... Read more
Still Crazy After All These Years?
A Look at 30 Years of the NetworkerRemember mimeograph machines, the Milan Group, the False Memory Foundation, DSM–III, the Family Therapy Networker, and private practice before managed care... Read more
A Buddhist Approach to Helping Low Self-Esteem
Teaching Self-Compassion in TherapyA Buddhist approach to enhancing self-esteem. Read more
Psychotherapy's Greatest Debates
Assessing the State of the Art 2012The State of the Art, the Networker’s first-ever virtual conference, offered an opportunity for leaders in our field who disagree to debate each other... Read more
Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Help a Panicked Client
From Certainty to UncertaintyOften clients come to therapy to resolve ambivalence or because they can’t make up their minds. But sometimes, the problem is that they’re too certain... Read more
Editor's Note: March/April 2012
Looking Back on Therapy’s Unfolding StoryAll therapy is about stories—the stories clients tell therapists and the (we hope) more truthful and helpful stories therapists and clients construct... Read more
Recovering Together
An Ailing Mother Comes to the Aid of Her SonAn ailing mother and son help each other find their way back to health. Read more
Igniting Excellence in Psychotherapy
Top performers are made, not bornWhen it comes to achieving excellence, author Daniel Coyle has found a common pattern of focused, guided practice and instruction that leads to success. Read more
Psychotherapy At The Crossroads
A New Vision of Integrative Mental HealthAn alternative to the old talking cure is expanding the knowledge base of psychotherapy as we recognize the role that exercise, nutrition, spirituality... Read more
Beyond Clinical Correctness
Unearthing the logic of the client’s solutionAn understanding of the unconventional ways people demonstrate resilience is important in helping us avoid pathologizing clients and stop believing there’s... Read more
The Sadness Ghost
A 6-year-old discovers the power of his imaginationIt’s not necessarily that sadness must always be avoided, but maybe we need to find a way to give it its place. Read more
Editor's Note: January/February 2012
Kids These DaysThe old compact between family and society—each doing its part to protect and promote the whole—seems to be badly strained, if not flat-out broken. Thus... Read more
It’s More Complicated Than That
Probing the complexities of the antidepressants debateThe recent spate of negative research findings and unfavorable media coverage of antidepressant drugs have obscured some important clinical issues. Read more