Brain

Driven Crazy

TBI is Claiming the Hearts and Minds of Too Many Vets

With the U.S. Army suicide rate at an all-time high, there’s a greater need than ever to understand the struggles of soldiers returning from war zones and... Read more

How Conversation Sparks Therapeutic Change

The Search for the Unspoken Self

When we trust in ourselves to follow the signals of life that the patient emits in seemingly casual conversation, we increase chances of stepping outside the... Read more

Men with anger problems are generally highly reluctant clients who come to our offices only because they’ve gotten “the ultimatum” from their wives... Read more

Psyche and Soma

How Our Bodies Reveal Our Inner Experience

For 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

The Anatomy of Self-Hatred

Learning to Love Our Loathed "Selves"

With stalemated cases in which the task of self-acceptance feels impossible, the therapist needs to offer more than compassion and encouragement. Read more

The Power of Emotion in Therapy

How to Harness this Great Motivator

Neuroscientists recently established emotion is the prime force shaping how we cope with life’s challenges. Psychotherapists are beginning to learn how to... Read more

Why We Cry

A Clinician’s Guide

Our understanding of what happens when we weep hasn't progressed much beyond Freud's theory of catharsis. However, knowing how our nervous systems work can... Read more

System One Meets System Two

Daniel Kahneman Expands Our Vision

Daniel Kahneman, the founder of behavioral economics, has written a comprehensive dissection of the reasoning mind, which should be on every therapist’s... Read more

A Buddhist Approach to Helping Low Self-Esteem

Teaching Self-Compassion in Therapy

A Buddhist approach to enhancing self-esteem. Read more

Psychotherapy At The Crossroads

A New Vision of Integrative Mental Health
Andrew Weil

An alternative to the old talking cure is expanding the knowledge base of psychotherapy as we recognize the role that exercise, nutrition, spirituality... Read more

Brain-Based Parenting

What Neuroscience is Teaching Us About Connecting With Our Kids
Jonathan Baylin and Daniel Hughes

Our growing understanding of attachment and the processes that shape the parenting brain are opening new possibilities for helping stressed-out parents who are... Read more

Going Beyond Meditation with IFS

How to Move from Acceptance to Healing

Meditation supports clients in being more present and accepting. But if it’s transformation they want, IFS can help them take the next step. Read more

The Heart of Darkness

Plumbing the Nature of Evil

Plumbing the eternal question: Why are there bad people? Read more

Editor's Note: September/October 2011

The Mindfulness Binge/Minding Mindfulness

I first became aware that there was such a thing as meditation as part of my immersion in the cascade of mind-body-spirit esoterica unleashed by the human... Read more

West Meets East

Creating a New Wisdom Tradition

As mindfulness practices work their way into the psychotherapeutic mainstream, we’re starting to ask more clinically sophisticated questions: Who needs what... Read more

Suggesting Mindfulness

Awakening the Hypnotist Within

As a clinical intervention, mindfulness is best understood by stripping away its aura of mystical spirituality and understanding the crucial role suggestion... Read more

Shadow Side Of Meditation

Getting Stuck in the Present Moment

A Zen teacher describes the benefits and limitations of traditional meditation practice. Read more

Relational Meditation

Moving from Conflict to Attunement
Bruce Crapuchettes and Francine Crapuchettes Beauvoir

While meditation is usually considered solitary, two therapists discover that the couples intervention they’ve been using for over 20 years is actually a... Read more

In Search of a Lost Self

Reclaiming Our Missing Experiences

A primer on the specifics of incorporating mindfulness into therapeutic practice. Read more

Dancing with the Unconscious

A Mindful Approach to Communication

Sometimes conversation isn’t the best way to communicate with clients. There are times when therapists must go beyond the words. Read more

The Attuned Therapist

Does Attachment Theory Really Matter?

In recent years, attachment theory, with its emphasis on early bonding, connection and relationship, has exerted as much influence over the field of... Read more

Bringing Up Baby

Are We Too Attached?

While therapists may consider some intuitively appealing ideas about human development---like attachment theory---beyond dispute, the researcher's job is to... Read more

The Verdict Is In

The Case for Attachment Theory

Fifty years of research has confirmed that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment relationships is central to our well-being as adults. Read more

Breaking Free

A Mind-Body Approach to Retraining the Brain

Putting the power of neuroplasticity to work in the consulting room. Read more

Gender and the Brain

Louann Brizendine's Work Stirs New Controversy

Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine has stirred up plenty of controversy by arguing that men and women have very different brains. Read more

I Think, Therefore I Eat

Skills for Successful Dieting

From the viewpoint of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, the reason that dieters so frequently fail to stick to their healthy eating plans is simple: knowing what... Read more

It's Not About The Food

The Truth About Eating Disorders

The key to working effectively with eating disorders is understanding that starving, bingeing, and purging aren't simply bad habits. For treatment to work, it... Read more

Recipe For Life

Is Attuned Eating the Answer to Diet Failure?

Despite the common cultural notion that anyone can successfully lose weight---constantly reinforced by the $60 billion-a-year diet industry---at least 95... Read more

The Case for Energy Psychology

Snake oil or therapeutic power tool?

A wizened, seen-it-all psychologist describes how he came to embrace an approach that much of the orthodox psychotherapy world considers the latest incarnation... Read more

Lions Without a Cause

Men's Animal Instincts Don't Fit the Modern World

Let's face it: love means something quite different to men and women. A look at other species of social mammals offers some remarkable insights into the... Read more