The Therapy Beat

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

Millions of learning-disabled adults rely on intellectual guerrilla tactics to survive. Read more

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

From the March/April 1994 issue We have grown used to having front-row seats during natural and political cataclysms like the Los Angeles earthquake... Read more

Not only does his mother withdraw from him, she may even defer to him at this stage, which can be just as upsetting. Out of fear of emasculating him a boy... Read more

The adaptations necessary to make it in the competitive world of managed care go against many therapists' psychological grain. Read more