You Mean I'm Not Lazy?
Giving Adult Clients with ADHD the Tools to SucceedA therapist shares how to help adult clients with ADHD be successful in therapy. Read more
Hungry for Connection
10 Ways to Improve Your Therapy with Adolescent GirlsA veteran therapist draws from her years of clinical practice and personal experiences to meet every teenage client where they are. Read more
Phone Sex and the Rabbi
Discovering the Normal in the DeviantA therapist works with a rabbi struggling with his mental health and developing false relationships with phone sex operators. Read more
Getting Uncoupled
Anger Can Blind a Marriage Long After DivorceJust because a couple is legally divorced doesn't mean that they're not emotionally still married. Read more
Riding the Waves of Grief
Practical Tools for Clients and TherapistsKumar answers a question about how to deal with clients who have suffered devastating losses. The first thing a therapist must do is to reassure the client by... Read more
Depression: Have We Got It Wrong?
Questions about the serotonin hypothesisTwo new studies suggest that the conventional wisdom fostered by drug companies about what causes depression and how both the brain and the Prozac generation... Read more
Children in Crisis?
Concerns about the growing popularity of the bipolar diagnosisBipolar disorder was first flagged as a pediatric illness in the mid-1990s, when researchers led by Joseph Biederman of Harvard and Barbara Geller of... Read more
Buddhism Meets Neuroscience
Meditation, Consciousness, and the Search for a Shared LanguageCan the field of Buddhist meditation and the world of clinical neuroscience find common ground? Read more
103 Group Activities and TIPS
Fill your therapeutic toolbox with innovative, experiential exercises to enhance any group! Judith Belmont, M.S., has gathered this collection of The... Read more
Converting Calls into Clients
How to make the most of first contactHow to move from the first phone call to booking an appointment Read more
Sexual Heroin
Variant Arousal Patterns are an Obstacle to IntimacyAn erotic fetish disrupts a man's sexual history as well as his current relationship Read more
Alice in Neuroland
Can Machines Teach Us to Be More Human?As neuroscience was becoming the topic du jour of the therapy field, we sent Senior Editor Katy Butler to MIT on a mission. The result was, literally, a... Read more
The New 'Mixed' Marriage
Working with a couple when one partner is gayIn 2004, the outing of New Jersey Governor James McGreever brought widespread attention to the new "mixed marriage ." But the issues such couples struggle with... Read more
Bringing Mindfulness to Your Practice
When meditation helps . . . and when it doesn'tI'm interested in integrating meditation into my psychotherapy practice. What's the best way of doing this, and are there situations in which meditation can be? Read more
When You're 64
You May Be Ready to Retire, But What About Mom and Dad?With the life expectancy of the elderly rising, today's Boomers, much maligned for their presumed selfishness, are facing a far more daunting challenge in... Read more
The 8-Minute Cure
Can Watching Dr. Phil Change Your Life?Phil McGraw, or Dr. Phil, seems not to be "on television," but rather to emanate from television. Authoritative and comforting, he confronts victimhood with... Read more
Maestro of Consulting Room
At 83, Salvador Minuchin is still reflecting on clinical wisdomAt 83, family therapy pioneer Salvador Minuchin, the most dazzling therapeutic practitioner of his generation, continues on in his search for clinical wisdom. Read more
Beloved Stranger
Temperament and the Elusive Concept of NormalityAs our understanding of human temperament deepens, the concept of "normal" becomes far richer and more expansive than previously imagined. Read more
Getting Over It
We're more resilient than we realizeTherapists often assume that people going through grief or trauma must always emotionally work. But through the experience if they are to recover, recent... Read more
Blindsided: When Tragedy strikes too close to home
I nod numbly as I try to absorb the image of building a coffin for one's child. [Eric]'s son, Paul, is 15 years old. He's slowly dying from a brain tumor. n... Read more
Across the Great Divide
Middle Age in the Rear-View MirrorAs they've aged, the Boomers have kept redefining previous generations' ideas about the stages of the life cycle. But while the pop bromide may insist that "50... Read more