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Article May 9, 2018

Picture This!

Enhancing Emotional Healing with Visual Images

Enhancing emotional healing with visual images in your work. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

The New Science of Couples Therapy

Highlights from Symposium 2018

In their featured address, the Gottmans explored what research has revealed about the crucial role the brain’s seven different command systems can play in... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

What Really Heals and Awakens - Symposium

Highlights from Symposium 2018

Weaving together Buddhist philosophy and storytelling, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher Jack Kornfield explored the nature of therapeutic... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Our Myths about Sexuality

Highlights from Symposium 2018

Esther Perel called on the Symposium audience to challenge the various myths, especially those about male sexuality, that get in the way of deeper relational... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

A Tale of Mismatched Twins

The Power of Family Confronts the Bonds of DNA

A book about two sets of mismatched twins testifies to the power of both heredity and family loyalty Read more

Article May 9, 2018

On Idealization

Highlights from Symposium 2018

A highlight of this year’s Symposium was iconic therapist Irvin Yalom receiving the Networker Lifetime Achievement Award. In this excerpt from his recent... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Editor's Note - May/June 2018

Taking on the largely unnamed complexities of the #MeToo movement for men, this issue explores how therapists can help men respond to women’s experiences in... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Therapy and the Limitations of Mindfulness

When a Technique Becomes a Goal

Surprisingly, the bestselling Buddhist author and therapist Mark Epstein doesn't believe that mindfulness is a panacea. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

A Complete Life

From an Evening of Storytelling 2018

A specialist in grief and dying gets an early lesson on what makes up a full life. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

The Rescue

Finding the Courage to Let Go

A whirlwind romance turns into a troubled relationship. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Moments of Truth

Stories Told at the End of the Day

In our own small way, the Networker has tried to revive the ancient, tribal practice of storytelling. At our third annual Symposium storytelling event, five... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Karaoke on Five South

From an Evening of Storytelling 2018

A karaoke performance on a psych ward helps a mother and daughter find a way to reconnect. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

The Challenge of the Healing Apology

Highlights from Symposium 2018

At this cultural moment of the #MeToo movement, which has heightened awareness of a broad range of transgressions, psychologist and bestselling author Harriet... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Jimmy

From an Evening of Storytelling 2018

What happens to a buttoned-up young therapist when things get out of hand in his office? Read more

Article May 9, 2018

Silent and Confused

Opening Conversations with Men in the Wake of #MeToo

Most men publicly support #MeToo, but privately—very privately, often too privately even to share with their intimate partners—some are disoriented and... Read more

Article May 9, 2018

My First Client, My Best Teacher

From an Evening of Storytelling 2018

A challenging client, who won't speak or swallow, teaches a therapist just starting out how to find her own voice. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

The Hearing

From an Evening of Storytelling 2018

A therapist tries to ride to the rescue of an immigrant client in a desperate situation. Read more

Article May 9, 2018

The Symposium and the Psychology of Shopping

Highlights from Symposium 2018

In Networker editor Rich Simon’s introduction to the conference, he likened it to a deeply stimulating marketplace of ideas, where clinicians get an expanded... Read more

Digital Seminar May 1, 2018

Peter Levine PhD on Trauma: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

International trauma expert and author, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. will teach you how sensation-based treatment (as opposed to emotional or rational-based... Read more

Magazine Issue May 1, 2018

Men and #MeToo

What Are They Thinking?
Book April 24, 2018

Coping Skills for Kids Workbook

Dealing with stress, anxiety and anger are important skills to learn, but not all kids learn those strategies naturally. The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook... Read more

Article April 20, 2018

The Retiring Rebel

Rethinking the Way We Help Clients Face the Midlife Crisis

Rather than thinking of midlife as an emotional unraveling, I believe it’s more helpful to reframe this stage of life in our early 50s and 60s as “second... Read more

Article April 17, 2018

Jump-Starting Conversation in Family Therapy

The Difference Between Guiding and Intervening

How do you get family members to talk together productively? Enactments can be among the most valuable tools for getting a family's communication going. Read more

DVD April 12, 2018

Learn from the Masters: The Neuroscience of Stress, Depression and Developmental Trauma: Connect Physiology to Psychology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky

In this captivating recording, you’ll have the rare opportunity to learn from Dr. Robert Sapolsky, one of the world’s leading researchers on the... Read more

Article April 4, 2018

Six Ways to Find Comedy in Even the Darkest Moments

Shaking Your Clients Loose from Their Tragic Stances

Therapy, in order to shake people loose from their tragic stances and bounce them into the human comedy, is at its best when it is funny, when the tragic... Read more

Article April 3, 2018

Therapists Talk Gun Violence

Brainstorming Ways to Make a Difference

As an estimated half-a-million protestors poured into downtown Washington, DC for the March for Our Lives, therapists who were in town for their field’s... Read more

Book April 3, 2018

Just One Thing Card Deck

We are so busy these days that it’s great to have just one thing to focus on: a simple practice to reflect on and be inspired by that will gradually... Read more