Relationships

Taking Off The Gloves

David Schnarch On How Confrontation Speeds Up Couples Therapy

Couples therapist David Schnarch shares how speed helps give relationships hope. Read more

Motivating the Resistant Male Client

Terry Real On Why Leverage Is Key With Men

You’ve probably worked with men who’ve been dragged, kicking and screaming, into therapy by their partners. But how do you work with a client who doesn’t... Read more

The Fundamental Things

The times and tides of 33 years of marriage

The times and tides of 33 years of marriage 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

When Illness Moves In

Helping Couples Process the Trauma of Sickness

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

When Three Threatens Two

Must Parenthood Bring Down the Curtain on Romance?

Esther Perel explains why new parents need to prioritize their sex lives instead of leaving at the bottom of the to-do list. Read more

Are You There for Me?

Understanding the Foundations of Couples Conflict

And yet, I wondered, if we didn't have a theory of adult love and emotion, how could we truly understand what marriage was all about, let alone help couples... Read more

The Art and Science of Love

Can the Gottmans Bring Empirical Rigor to the Intuitive World of Couples Therapy?

After studying 3,000 couples in the past three decades, researcher John Gottman and his wife Julie are combining his research and her clinical savvy in a... Read more

Small Things Often

The Gottman Method in a Nutshell

A Gottman Method therapist coaches couples to build marital friendships, rather than trying to engineer dramatic breakthroughs. Read more

4 Types of Reconciliation

Coming Together after Falling Apart

Everyone's reconciliation story is different, but everyone can reconcile in one of four ways. Read more

The Untold Story: An Interview with Carol Gilligan

Carol Gilligan on recapturing the lost voice of pleasure

In her new book, The Birth of Pleasure, Carol Gilligan has tried to probe the root of what makes intimate partnership between men and women so difficult. What... Read more

Beeper in the Bedroom

Technology has become a therapeutic issue

As the digital revolution permeates and alters our lives, therapists are increasingly called upon to become the guides to a balance between the allure of... Read more