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Article January 1, 2010

Swept Away

Discovering the world of the senses

A young woman discovers the world of the senses. Read more

Article January 1, 2010

The Brain's Rules for Change

Translating cutting-edge neuroscience into practice

For the firs time, we're beginning to understand how to directly delete emotional meanings attributed to disturbing past events. Read more

Article January 1, 2010

The Rise and Fall of PaxMedica

Welcome to the new era of brain-based therapy

In the 1970s, the rise of Prozac, the DSM-III, and "evidence-based" therapies brought the appearance of coherence and order to mental health professions under... Read more

Book January 1, 2010

See It. Say It. Do It!

Can your child see... Really see? Does your child struggle in school? Does your child resist reading or writing? Does your child have test anxiety? Does... Read more

Article January 1, 2010

Brain to Brain: January/February 2010

The talking cure goes beyond words

As we learn more about the brain, it becomes apparent that therapists need to pay at least as much attention to the body and nervous system (both their own and... Read more

Book January 1, 2010

Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life

Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was the brain you would die with, and that the brain cells you had at birth were the most you... Read more

Article January 1, 2010

Facebook and Your Practice

Developing your social-networking savvy

More than a time-consuming diversion, Facebook can play a central role in marketing your practice. Read more

Book January 1, 2010

CBT Skills Workbook

Contains over 100 of the top hands-on practical worksheets and exercises for integrating CBT!  Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the fastest-growing... Read more

Magazine Issue January 1, 2010

Psychotherapy and the Brain

Are we entering a new era of practice
Magazine Archive January 1, 2010

Psychotherapy and the Brain

Are we entering a new era of practice
Article November 1, 2009

Out of the Shadow

What's the Prevalence of Porn Doing to Our Psyches?

A revolution in how people access and use pornography has taken the therapy community by surprise. Now some experts believe that an epidemic of porn use is... Read more

Article November 1, 2009

A Warm Bath for the Brain

Understanding oxytocin's role in therapeutic change

How to get through to clients caught in fight-flight-freeze mode. Read more

Article November 1, 2009

Depathologizing Porn

Why Can't It Be Just an Acceptable Diversion?

Open porn use introduces a relational question that most couples never face: how to live with the knowledge that your partner's erotic fantasy-world often... Read more

Article November 1, 2009

Helping Kids Take Charge

How to get young people to turn their problems into coping skills

Turning problems to be diagnosed and medication into skills to be taught. Read more

Article November 1, 2009

Heart of the Matter

Helping Couples Find Their Sexual Chemistry

Whether they know it or not, what most people are looking for in sex therapy isn't so much a change in specific behaviors as a way of developing a more... Read more

Magazine Archive November 1, 2009

The Porn Explosion

How Are Therapists Reacting?
Book October 1, 2009

Trauma Competency

This is a book for clinicians. More specifically, it is a book for clinicians to use with their clients affected by trauma's sequelae. Unique in its... Read more

Article September 25, 2009

Using EMDR to Revive a Traumatized Vet's Marriage

Working with War Memories

EMDR helps a young Iraq War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

Article September 24, 2009

Throwing Away the Script

Helping Trainees Trust Their Gut

A clinician explains how to help your supervisees practice therapy from the heart. Read more

Article September 24, 2009

Voices of Truth

When TV finally came, in the early '50s, the world it brought into our living rooms was black and white, and dumbed way down. Newsmen now had faces, and, as... Read more

Article September 24, 2009

Erickson's Legacy

Strategic therapy rests on skillful information-gathering

Strategic therapy is less about technique than a search for the information that'll illuminate the solution to your client's problem. Read more

Article September 24, 2009

You Gotta Have Heart

This article first appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. Mindfulness has become one of the hottest growth areas in the field of psychotherapy in the... Read more

Article September 24, 2009

Higher Ground

What Clinicians Should Know about the "Vertical Dimension"

Modern therapy has given scant attention to morally elevated emotions like awe, gratitude, and admiration, resulting in a skewed picture of how people actually... Read more

Article September 24, 2009

Chew Pow

This article first appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. There are many ways to say “I don’t know.” She was a diminutive woman... Read more

Article September 1, 2009

Hello, Good-bye

Boomers Are Discovering The Joys and Sorrows of Grandparenthood

As the boomers discover the joys and sorrows of becoming grandparents, they're putting their own generational stamp on a role that's as ancient as parenthood. Read more

Article September 1, 2009

From Revolution to Evolution

Salvador Minuchin Reflects On His Therapeutic Legacy

Although Salvador Minuchin is arguably the most influential clinician of the last half-century, his work is light-years away from the routinized approaches... Read more

Article September 1, 2009

Beyond Right and Wrong

Teaching Couples How To Embrace Fair-Mindedness

What do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more

Article September 1, 2009

Bungee Families

You Can Go Home Again

While some warn that the conveyor belt that once transported adolescents into adulthood has broken down, other insist the increasing number of adult children... Read more

Article September 1, 2009

Learning Forgiveness

Peacemaking Skills For Couples

Given that most couples never manage to change each other very much, teaching them to forgive each other's imperfections is a vastly underutilized therapeutic... Read more

Magazine Archive September 1, 2009

Parenting in the Age of Whatever

Paradoxes of the Post-Boomer Family