The Therapy Beat

Two new Hollywood bits bring out the beast in us Read more

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

We need more realistic expectations about the possibilities of human transformation Read more

Therapy on the information highway a strange fiction based on a stranger reality. Article first published in the September/October 1994 issue. TODAY, IN THE... Read more

From the September/October 1994 IN THE PHOTOGRAPH OF MY maternal grandfather, Louie, that I remember most clearly, he is around 50, his bald head and... Read more

Today, more than ever, parents need to get in synch. Read more

An inner-city father competes with a gang for his son's loyalty. Read more

Some things just can't be fixed. Read more

From the July/August 1994 PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS WHO WANT TO SURVIVE TODAY must know how to work smarter, and market and provide quality customer service. It is... Read more

Immigration means learning to live in two worlds. Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue SHE WORE A SEMITRANSPARENT WHITE SHIRT, AND underneath I could detect her fine lace bra. When she leaned toward me to take my... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue   WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, MY FRIEND CAROL TALKED ME into going to a dance at our high school. Of course, we had... Read more

Two sisters find different ways to live with the nightmare of sexual abuse. Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue ON A SATURDAY EVENING LATE ONE MAY A FEW YEARS AGO, I stood outside a recently opened restaurant and watched as cars... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue IN A WIDELY PUBLICIZED TRIAL last May anxiously followed by therapists around the country, a jury in Napa County... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue I HAD NEVER HEARD OF KURT COBAIN UNTIL THE OTHER day when he killed himself. Apparently, between suicide attempts, he had been... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue THE PHRASE, “THE MELTING POT” ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE title of a popular turn-of-the-century play that ended... Read more

Cutting through the isolation of our self-declared tribes Read more

Of course, not everyone's quarrel with PC is the same. Read more

George Babbitt goes to diversity training Read more

From the May/June 1994 issue ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I READ NICK CUMMINGS’S presidential address to the American Psychological Association in which he... Read more

Some African-American couples wrestle with stereotypes to the bitter end. Read more

How the world looks to a 10-year-old with a learning disability. Read more

Two squabbling ex-spouses learn to be steadfast coparents. Read more

The real diagnosis hiding behind client's failed marriages, rage, and shame isn't always easy to spot. Read more

Every day, warring and desperate husbands and wives show up in our offices agonizing over divorce. Have we been too blithe in encouraging them to go ahead, too... Read more

Some intriguing findings refute popular myths about marriage. Read more

This essay offers 38 radical life solutions on truth, work, love, politics, and spirit—all urging you to stop running and be the solution. Read more

Therapists wrestle with an uncomfortable truth: in a culture in crisis, neutrality is no longer and option. Read more

Two films, one question: what does it cost us when we're forced to bury our deepest passions? Read more