The Hidden Logic of Anxiety
Look for the Emotional Truth behind the SymptomIn our rush to remove the symptoms of anxiety, we too often ignore the client's hidden system of personal meaning. Focusing on that murky inner world can both... Read more
Constructing The Third Reality
How to move from conflict to coexistenceThe Family Dialogue Project grew out of my attempt to help therapists, abuse survivors, and their families caught in the meshes of terrible conflicts from... Read more
The End of Innocence
Reconsidering Our Concepts of VictimhoodIn our treatment of survivors over the past two decades, the therapeutic pendulum has swung from complete denial to an overfocus on the wounded inner child... Read more
4 Types of Reconciliation
Coming Together after Falling ApartEveryone's reconciliation story is different, but everyone can reconcile in one of four ways. Read more
Erotic Intelligence
Reconciling Sensuality and DomesticityMany therapists fail to recognize that sexual desire doesn't always play by the rules of good citizenship. By counseling political correctness in the bedroom... Read more
The New Consciousness
Bridging science and spiritualityA book review of Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them? A Scientific Collaboration with the Dalai Lama Read more
Oversimplifying Schizophrenia
Hawks and Doves Battle over the Most Effective TreatmentA book review of Mad in America by Robert Whitaker Read more
Why Is This Man Smiling?
A Self-Described Grouch is Trying to Turn Happiness into a ScienceSelf-Described grouch Martin Seligman, the father of the positive psychology movement, is trying to turn happiness into a science. Read more
Giving Nature a Good Name
Book reviews of The Soul of Recovery; Trauma Practice in the Wake of September 11, 2001; and Love at Goon Park Read more
The Untold Story: An Interview with Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan on recapturing the lost voice of pleasureIn her new book, The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan has tried to probe the root of what makes intimate partnership between men and women so difficult. What... Read more
In Search of a Balance
Informing our children of both the beauties and dangers of sexA book review of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine Read more
Bad Couples Therapy
Getting Past the Myth of Therapist NeutralityHere are the mistakes both beginning and experienced couples therapists commit, and how you can avoid them. Read more
The Awful Truth
Most Men Are Just Not Raised to be IntimateAfter the publication of my book, 'I Don't Want to Talk about It,' I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the... Read more
Discoveries from the Black Box
How the Neuroscience Revolution Can Change Your PracticeIncreasingly, therapists are trying to make sense of the cavalcade of neuroscientific discoveries regularly trumpeted in the research literature and the... Read more
In the Bedroom
Countering the destructive effects of trauma on intimacyA book review of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors: Strengthening Attachment Bonds by Susan M. Johnson Read more
The Slippery Slope
Violating the Ultimate Therapeutic Taboo"I doubt that I would fit many people's image of a therapist who would violate sexual boundaries with a client. Before it happened, I certainly did not fit my... Read more
Divorce Court
Weighing the latest evidenceA book review of For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly Read more
Cognitive-Behaviorism Comes of Age
Grounding symptomatic treatment in an existential approachHelping her make a connection between her emotions and the traumatic event was an important milestone for Celeste, because it enabled her to viscerally... Read more