Rewriting the Story: Entering the World of the Abused Child
January/February 2014
Therapists must offer abused children a different felt experience of who they are.
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Psychotherapy and the Affordable Care Act * Ecstasy in the Consulting Room
By Tori Rodriguez and Kathleen Smith
January/February 2014
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The Impassable Divide
January/February 2014
More and more therapists have begun wondering how far all our impressive-sounding talk about the brain has gone in improving therapy’s effectiveness. After all, dropping stray neuroscience factoids into therapy sessions doesn’t equal “brain-based” therapy. So we’ve decided to ask some challenging questions about our profession’s infatuation with the brain: when all is said and done, has brain science actually lived up to its promise for psychotherapy? What specific clinical advances, if any, have been guided or encouraged by knowing more about neuroscience?
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Louder than Words: The Unspoken Code of Fathers and Sons
January/February 2014
A Bruce Springsteen song helps crack the unspoken code of father–son communication.
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How Food Improves Mood: Bringing Nutrition into the Consulting Room
January/February 2014
Learning even a little about nutrition and diet can greatly enhance therapists’ ability to help clients with mood problems.
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Emotional First Aid: Looking Beyond the DSM
January/February 2014
In Emotional First Aid, Manhattan psychologist Guy Winch provides an instructional manual for handling the bumps and bruises of life.
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We’re Less in Control Than We Think
January/February 2014
Most of us put much too much faith in the power of our conscious minds to bring about lasting change. Instead of looking up the higher branches of consciousness, we should be looking down into the nervous system settings that generate impulses and inclinations.
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What’s Ahead in Psychotherapy’s Fascination with Brain Science?
January/February 2014
Labeling behavior in fancy neurophysiological terms can make what we do sound more scientifically rigorous than the notoriously fuzzy language of psychotherapy, but how clinically useful is this brain language anyway?
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A Whole New Way of Looking at It
January/February 2014
More than any other positive emotion, love resides within connections. It extends beyond personal boundaries to characterize the vibe that pulsates between and among people. It can even energize whole social networks or inspire a crowd to get up and dance.
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January/February 2014
Untangling Brain Science
Has it Lived Up to its Promise for Therapists
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The Nitty-Gritty of Lasting Change
November/December 2013
Changes in the habitual attitudes and behaviors that shape our lives rarely happen as the result of psychological epiphanies or emotional catharsis. Most therapeutic progress comes from the painstaking process of continual practice that reinforces some behaviors while actively discouraging others.
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Love and Terror: Penetrating the Heart of Evil
November/December 2013
Pilgrim's Wilderness
A new book examines how one man, under the guise of religious faith, kept his family isolated in a world of abuse and brutality, and how another family broke boundaries to help them escape.
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The Black Shadow: Facing the Taboo Issue of Race in the Consulting Room
November/December 2013
Raising the issue of race in therapy can help African American clients connect their personal struggles to an enduring cultural legacy that many insist isn’t supposed to matter anymore.
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Psychotherapy vs. Placebos * Frontline Psychotherapy
By Garry Cooper and Kathleen Smith
November/December 2013
Garry Cooper and Kathleen Smith
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Do We Really Choose How We Live Our Lives?
November/December 2013
When routines and habits become as lifeless as the manner in which one brushes one’s teeth, when the choreography of one’s existence resembles a blindfolded slog through quicksand—rather than the Jets and Sharks leaping across the streets of the Upper West Side—something must be done.
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Permission to Sleep: Accepting a Long Road to Love
November/December 2013
A woman discovers that giving someone permission to sleep can be a deep expression of love.
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What’s the Difference?
November/December 2013
Some people can drink to excess for years without experiencing the negative consequences that can destroy their lives. So when does someone cross the tenuous line from habit into addiction? And what’s the difference between the two anyway?
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Hearing the Body’s Truth: Three Steps to Connecting to Felt Sense
November/December 2013
Although the idea that the mind and body are inextricably linked is widely accepted in our field, many clinicians remain too focused on words to hear the truths that their clients’ bodies have to offer.
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Grief as a Gift: Carrying on the Legacy of Kübler-Ross
November/December 2013
David Kessler has spent his career helping people all over the world deal with death. In the process, he’s learned that—as much as we may resist experiencing it—grief is a gift that helps us heal.
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A Group of Tibetan Refugees Find their Inner Guides
November/December 2013
How do you help 200 teenagers who’ve had to flee their country find a path to peace in a new place? A psychiatrist who’s traveled across the world to help traumatized refugees from Tibet guides them to a source of wisdom and hope within themselves.
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Breaking Free of the Habitual
November/December 2013
Most clients have automatic habits of thinking, feeling, and verbalizing experiences that imprison them in a world of gray sameness. How do we help them escape? The most immediate way is to ditch your logical analysis and help them experience a felt sense.
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How to Succeed at Self-Sabotage
November/December 2013
Making yourself profoundly unhappy takes tenacity and creativity. But the real art of it is to behave in ways that allow you to claim yourself to be an innocent victim, ideally of the very people from whom you’re forcibly extracting compassion and pity.
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First Comes the Hard Work
November/December 2013
Romantically infatuated with the idea of psychological revelation—aka the therapeutic “breakthrough”—therapists too often ignore the fact that a life’s worth of habitual behavior often trumps, for good or ill, all the insights and emotional fireworks that we like to see as the key to therapeutic “progress.”
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Expecting the Unexpected at PS 48
September/October 2013
To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected.
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