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The Power of Commitment
Mindfulness Is Only the BeginningDespite its popularity among therapists, mindfulness is only a beginning in the process of change. Read more
Reinventing Couplehood
Intimacy and Commitment in the Age of Consumer MarriageEsther Perel, a couples therapist whose TED talk has had more than 5 million views, believes that it’s time to challenge the mismatch between the romantic... Read more
The Malleability of Memory
Putting Psychotherapy on the Witness StandDuring the false memory controversies of the 1990s, many therapists saw Elizabeth Loftus, one of the most honored psychologists in the history of the field, as... Read more
The Tribal Classroom
Applying attachment theory in schoolsLou Cozolino believes that attachment theory and neuroscience may offer the key to transforming our troubled educational system. Read more
When Talk Isn’t Enough
Easing Trauma’s Lingering ShockPioneering trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk shares his thoughts on the differences between public and private trauma. Read more
Brain Imaging and Psychotherapy
Why is it so controversial?For nearly 20 years, psychiatrist Daniel Amen has led a controversial crusade to make brain imaging an accepted part of psychotherapeutic practice. Read more
The Little Things
Love in the Consulting RoomBarbara Fredrickson’s research on the biology of love and positivity demystifies our ideas about the role of intimacy, connection, and resilience in our... Read more
Emotional First Aid
Looking Beyond the DSMIn Emotional First Aid, Manhattan psychologist Guy Winch provides an instructional manual for handling the bumps and bruises of life. Read more
Grief as a Gift
Carrying on the Legacy of Kübler-RossDavid 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... Read more
Wearing Your Heart on Your Face
The Polyvagal Circuit in the Consulting RoomPsychophysiologist Stephen Porges’s research on the polyvagal nervous system provides insight into the evolutionary roots of trauma and anxiety, and how... Read more
Talking with God
Religion as a Therapeutic ExperienceAnthropologist and author Tanya Luhrmann explains how many evangelicals experience the kind of support in their connection with God that others find in their... Read more
Is Technology Changing Our Minds?
What Therapists Need to Know in the Digital AgePsychiatrist and neuroscientist Gary Small on what therapists should know about how technology is altering our brains, for both good and ill. Read more
Finding the Hero Within
Exploring the Link Between Trauma and OppressionKenneth Hardy believes that the experience of trauma is too often unacknowledged by therapists struggling to help troubled minority youth. Read more
The Power of Forgiveness
Cutting the Bonds of ResentfulnessFrederic Luskin has spent the last 20 years studying forgiveness and why achieving it can be so difficult. Read more
Tribal Politics
Moral Issues are at the Heart of ElectionsSocial psychologist Jonathon Haidt offers a perspective on why we vote the way we do that you’re unlikely to have read about in the deluge of mainstream... Read more
Psyche and Soma
How Our Bodies Reveal Our Inner ExperienceFor more than 25 years, Pat Ogden has been at the forefront of developing somatic approaches that can succeed where the talking cure fails. Read more
Irvin Yalom on Psychotherapy as Craft
Looking Back to Move ForwardIn an age when all eyes seem constantly riveted on the Next Big Thing, celebrated therapist-novelist Irvin Yalom takes a different approach. Read more
Mary Pipher on Activism
Applying our Healing Skills in the Wider WorldBestselling author and retired psychotherapist Mary Pipher makes a case for therapists’ having the know-how to become effective social activists---and for... Read more
Igniting Excellence in Psychotherapy
Top performers are made, not bornWhen it comes to achieving excellence, author Daniel Coyle has found a common pattern of focused, guided practice and instruction that leads to success. Read more
Learning How to Learn
Communities of Practice can reveal new paths to excellenceWhile therapists often lead quite isolated professional lives, social-learning theorist Etienne Wenger has shown how a community of practice is perhaps the... Read more
Our Potential for Good
Altruism as an Evolutionary ImperativePsychologist Darcher Keltner believes that underestimating our capacity for altruism does human nature a disservice. Read more
The Alphabet Soup
Diana Fosha on the Convergence in Today’s TherapiesDiana Fosha talks about why so many acronymic therapies—ADEP, DBT, IFS, ACT—resemble each other, and what that says about the therapy field today. Read more
Neil Clark Warren, the founder of the successful matchmaking site eHarmony, talks about what’s necessary to find a good, compatible match. Read more
Red Speak, Blue Speak
The Psychology of Political RhetoricThe work of linguist George Lakoff on the psychology of political rhetoric has become must reading for anyone who wants to understand how candidates get... Read more
Gender and the Brain
Louann Brizendine's Work Stirs New ControversyNeuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine has stirred up plenty of controversy by arguing that men and women have very different brains. Read more
Whatever Became of Feminism?
Harriet Lerner on the Legacy of the Women's MovementPsychologist and bestselling author Harriet Lerner speaks about her body of work and addresses the question of the continuing impact of feminism on... Read more
Telling It Like It Is
Donald Meichenbaum Doesn't Mince WordsLong an acerbic critic of the trendy and faddish, Don Meichenbaum, one of the founders of CBT, is still determined to separate myth from reality in the world... Read more
Embracing Life, Facing Death
An interview with Irvin YalomFor existential therapist Irvin Yalom, even depth-oriented therapy doesn't go deep enough. Read more
From Revolution to Evolution
Salvador Minuchin Reflects On His Therapeutic LegacyAlthough 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