Brain-Based Parenting
What Neuroscience is Teaching Us About Connecting With Our KidsOur growing understanding of attachment and the processes that shape the parenting brain are opening new possibilities for helping stressed-out parents who are... Read more
Mental Health Systems Under Stress
- Mental health systems under stress - The timing of trauma treatment - The revolt against DSM-5 Read more
The Decline And Fall Of Parental Authority
...and What Therapists Can Do About ItAmerican parents today face a perfect storm of cultural and social circumstances that undermine the very foundations of parental authority. In response... Read more
A Bond Like None Other
Sometimes proximity isn’t the same as closenessExploring the complex fabric of an often poorly understood family bond that shapes us, in one way or another, throughout our lives. Read more
Learning How to Learn
Communities of Practice can reveal new paths to excellenceWhile therapists often lead quite isolated professional lives, social-learning theorist Etienne Wenger has shown how a community of practice is perhaps the... Read more
The Parent Circle
Tapping the Wisdom of True ExpertsTraditional approaches to helping parents too often fail to address their profound sense of disempowerment and frustration. It’s time to find new ways to... Read more
Going Beyond Meditation with IFS
How to Move from Acceptance to HealingAn IFS approach can help clients transform the disruptive feelings and thoughts that they’ve learned to simply observe during meditation. Read more
The Heart of Darkness
Plumbing the Nature of EvilPlumbing the eternal question: Why are there bad people? Read more
A Matter Of Choice
Deciding: to be Right or be Married?Do you want to be right or be married? Okay, now pause, think, breathe . . . and choose between First Consciousness and Second Consciousness. Read more
Facing Our Fears
Why We Avoid Doing Couples TherapyAs neuroscience increasingly shows how wired we are to our intimate partners, an important question arises for therapists: Why do we primarily continue to see... Read more
The Fundamental Things
The times and tides of 33 years of marriageThe times and tides of 33 years of marriage Read more
Trauma Below and Above Ground
- Chilean miners' long-term trauma - Training good therapists - The question of bullying Read more
In Or Out?
Treating the Mixed-Agenda CoupleAt least 30 percent of couples coming to therapy have fundamentally different agendas about whether to try to save the marriage. If we’re ever going to... Read more
The Five “A’s” of Transformation
The Enneagram as a Clinical ToolThe Enneagram and the 5 A’s of transformation. Read more
Removing The Masks
Let’s Stop Wasting TimeConventional therapeutic wisdom aside, people typically don’t hurt each other because they’re out of touch, unable to communicate, or can’t help... Read more
Editor's Note: November/December 2011
The Gritty, Hot-Blooded Work of Couples TherapyThis issue’s contributors aren’t just convinced that therapists should do more couples therapy, but that risk-taking and turning up the heat in the therapy... Read more
Our Potential for Good
Altruism as an Evolutionary ImperativePsychologist Darcher Keltner believes that underestimating our capacity for altruism does human nature a disservice. Read more
From Estrangement to Engagement
Helping Fathers and Daughters ConnectHelping Fathers and Daughters Connect Read more
The White Tuxedo
Saturday Night Fever Comes to the Bar MitzvahSaturday Night Fever comes to the bar mitzvah. Read more
In Search of a Lost Self
Reclaiming Our Missing ExperiencesA primer on the specifics of incorporating mindfulness into therapeutic practice. Read more
Relational Meditation
Moving from Conflict to AttunementWhile meditation is usually considered solitary, two therapists discover that the couples intervention they’ve been using for over 20 years is actually a... Read more
The Alphabet Soup
Diana Fosha on the Convergence in Today’s TherapiesDiana Fosha talks about why so many acronymic therapies—ADEP, DBT, IFS, ACT—resemble each other, and what that says about the therapy field today. Read more
West Meets East
Creating a New Wisdom TraditionAs mindfulness practices work their way into the psychotherapeutic mainstream, we’re starting to ask more clinically sophisticated questions: Who needs what... Read more
Shadow Side Of Meditation
Getting Stuck in the Present MomentA Zen teacher describes the benefits and limitations of traditional meditation practice. Read more