Following the Money
Why fewer and fewer men are becoming therapists.If the male perspective is lost entirely from our profession, the culture will once again see emotional work as women's work, and I think we all will lose Read more
New Science for Psychotherapy
Can we predict how therapy will progress?Psychologists Robert-Jay Green and Paul D. Werner of the California School of Professional Psychology insist that family therapists who don't rethink their... Read more
Breathing Room
Creating a Zone of Safety and Connection for Angry Black TeensTherapy is about healing and also about promoting connection. The healing starts when we lance the wounds our clients bring in, help them vent their pain and... Read more
What to Do When You Have a Tricky, Sticky, Picky Brain
OCD is a trickster – but kids don’t have to play by its rules. What do you do when your child has a “tricky, sticky, picky” brain? The... Read more
Overcoming Self-Abandonment
You’ve been everything to everyone. You hustle, overdeliver, say yes when you mean no, and carry the emotional weight of everyone around you... Read more
Bringing Up Father
How My Children Taught Me the Secret of FatherhoodWhen author Frank Pittman became a father, he discovered that the childhood absence of his own father left him with no idea how to relate to his kids. This... Read more
Turning Down the Temperature
Handling one of marriage's most explosive crisesHow to cool down the temperature with couples facing the crisis of infidelity. Read more
Swallowed Alive
Not surprisingly, almost nothing makes children, including adolescents, feel as insecure and adrift as parents who also feel insecure and adrift, tossed by... Read more
Long-Distance Therapy
Helping an isolated family heal their traumaFrom the May/June 1994 issue IN THE SPRING OF 1991, MY MOTHER, A MENNONITE AND a nurse-midwife, called me from rural Pennsylvania. “Can you give... Read more
Friendship with a Price Tag?
What does account for a goodly chunk of the positive change that clients experience from therapy, the outcome research shows, is the time-honored therapeutic... Read more