You've Got to Be Kidding
The Power of Humor in Therapy
May/June 2022
Shared laughter is an attachment language. Though therapists usually engage more knowingly with tears, the exchange of brighter affect is another kind of invitation to the dance of intimacy.
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Humility First
Avoiding Transcultural Overreach
March/April 2022
There’s no recipe book when it comes to working with another culture.
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Practice Tools - March/April 2022
Uncovering Loops of Thought and Action from Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook.
March/April 2022
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Case Study
“Be Yourself—But Don’t”: Mixed Messages from a Mother to Her Gay Son
March/April 2022
What happens when loving mothers of gay sons unknowingly send them mixed messages about being themselves?
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Family Matters
The Diary Keeper: A Father Discovers What Matters Most
March/April 2022
As time rushes forward, a diary promises the chance to slow things down.
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In Consultation
Unshed Tears: Helping Kids Work through Unresolved Grief
March/April 2022
Many of the ways that children grieve differently from adults can go unrecognized and unprocessed.
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Open Book
A Vehicle of Awakening: Can Psychotherapy Be a Spiritual Practice?
March/April 2022
In The Zen of Therapy, psychiatrist Mark Epstein explores what a Buddhist therapy has offered his clients.
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Point of View
Getting Past You and Me: Cultivating the “Us” in Intimate Relationship
March/April 2022
Terry Real is on a mission: leading couples into increased intimacy by moving them beyond a culture of individualism.
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The Therapy Beat
Agitated Kids, Dangerous Punishment: Rethinking the Policy of Seclusion and Restraint
March/April 2022
Seclusion and restraint is a rare but extreme response to students deemed unruly. One parent, backed by some clinical allies, is drawing attention to its traumatic effects.
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Couples Therapy Around the World
Putting EFT to Work in Two Cultures
March/April 2022
With its Western focus on secure emotional bonds and demonstrative, healthy attachment in couples, how does Emotionally Focused Therapy fit into ancient and collectivist cultures?
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Crossing the Urban-Rural Divide
Time to Address Unchallenged Prejudices
March/April 2022
In Hammerfest, Norway, known as the northernmost town in the world, a therapist is challenging geographical narcissism.
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Do I Have to Forgive You?
Loosening the Grip of Obsessive Anger and Pain
March/April 2022
The hardest part of letting go of anger can be accepting that the offending party is never going to apologize, never going to see themselves objectively, and never going to listen to our feelings with openness of mind or heart.
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Healing in the Outback
An Outdoor Therapist Reconceives His Role
March/April 2022
Psychotherapy needs alternatives to the century-old approach of sit and talk. When you’re open to the spirit of adventure, you never feel stuck.
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Relational EMDR Therapy
Showing Up for Our Clients
March/April 2022
Being an expert in your method is only part of the work. Sometimes our clients need us to go beyond administering a protocol.
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Treating Trauma From the Top Down
A Cognitive Path to Healing
March/April 2022
When it comes to designating best practices for treating trauma, where does the research stand? And where is the field going?
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Editor's Note
March/April 2022
In this issue, we investigate how and why therapists around the country—and around the world—are reimagining their work. This rarely means starting from scratch; it’s more about conducting careful, creative experiments that push the edges of the ways they’ve been working, allowing them to discover more useful ways of helping clients.
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Getting at the Heart of Affairs
How to Help Clients Examine Ethical Dilemmas
March/April 2022
Affairs are one of the biggest ethical issues that therapists encounter in everyday practice. And while there’s extensive literature on how to help couples recover from an affair, there’s little on how to help someone having one grapple with the effect of their actions on others.
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Practice Tools - January/February 2022
Helping Clients Understand Dissociation from Janina Fisher’s NEW The Living Legacy of Trauma Flip Chart – A Psychoeducational In-Session Tool for Clients and Therapists
January/February 2022
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Bursting the Bubble of Individual Therapy: The Need to See Our Clients in a Relational Context
January/February 2022
As the years pass, is it possible that the more we work with long-term clients, the more we might overlook bigger issues that aren’t being addressed?
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Editor's Note
January/February 2022
How have we come to a place where fully a quarter of Americans aren’t merely disgruntled with family members, but are distressed enough to actually cut them off? What’s the emotional fallout of these fractures, both for those who initiate them and for the rest of the family? And how can therapists best navigate this relational minefield and avoid missteps that could widen an existing fissure?
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Estrangement 101
Helping Parents Reengage Their Kids
January/February 2022
Helping parents process their own childhood pain is a difficult but necessary part of helping them reconnect with an estranged child.
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Family Matters
Four Simple Ingredients: Lessons on Baking with Matthew
January/February 2022
Four simple ingredients will become bread, whether you do everything right or not. The result may not be perfect, but it doesn’t have to be.
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