Issues & Developments

Tracking the evolution of our field
Article July 1, 2009

The Missing Piece

Helping Asperger's Clients Find Connection

To go through life with Asperger's as an adult is like walking onto a stage and being the only actor who doesn't know the lines or plot. But as the condition... Read more

Article July 1, 2009

Reversing Chronic Pain

Ten Steps to Reduce Suffering
Maggie Phillips

More and more chronic pain patients are being referred to therapists after their physicians conclude that they show every appearance of being healed. Read more

Article July 1, 2008

Beyond the One-Way Mirror

A New Approach to Reviving Public Sector Psychotherapy
Scott Sells with Cynthia Franklin

A determined family therapist tries to revive public sector psychotherapy using Thomas Edison as his role model. Read more

Article January 1, 2008

Pathologizing for Dollars

The Rise of the ADHD Diagnosis

Clinical diagnoses can have more to do with politics and economics than with science and effective treatment. Read more

Article January 1, 2008

A Quiet Revolution

Therapists Are Learning a New Way to Be With Their Clients

If you're a therapist these days, it's hard to open a publication—or your mailbox—without hearing about mindfulness. Are the Eastern wisdom traditions... Read more

Article January 1, 2008

Finding Daylight

Mindful Recovery from Depression

There's increasing evidence that mindfulness helps depressed people fight relapse. Read more

Article November 1, 2007

Supershrinks

What's the Secret of Their Success?

Why do some therapists clearly stand out above the rest, consistently getting far better results than most of their colleagues? According to the research, it... Read more

Article November 1, 2007

How Clients 'Do' Their Problems

NLP Can Help You Do the "Briefest" Therapy

Careful attention to body language and nonverbal cues can dramatically streamline the process of therapeutic change. Read more

Article May 1, 2007

Too Much Information

Field Notes from the Genetics Frontier

As genomic science is increasingly able to map our future, therapists must help families make difficult decisions. Read more

Article March 1, 2005

Getting Over It

We're more resilient than we realize

Therapists often assume that people going through grief or trauma must always emotionally work. But through the experience if they are to recover, recent... Read more

Article March 23, 2004

On Being Sane in Insane Places

Retracing David Ronsenhan's Journey
Lauren Slater

in 1972, David Rosenhan shook the foundations of psychiatry with a classic experiment that stunningly demonstrated how the world is always warped by the lens... Read more

Article January 2, 2004

The Limits of Talk

Bessel Van der Kolk Wants to Transform the Treatment of Trauma

For more than 20 years, Bessel van der Kolk has been in the forefront of research in the psychobiology of trauma and in the quest for more effective... Read more

Article January 1, 1998

Riding Out the Storm

A therapist's guide to surviving burnout

Everything you ever wanted to know about surviving burnout Read more

Article September 2, 1996

Oh, How Happy We Will Be

The Future of Healthcare
Greg Crister

The pharmaceutical industry spends $10 billion on promotion every year. Is it so surprising that talk therapy is disappearing beneath the onslaught of today's... Read more

Article November 1, 1995

The Good Therapist

Continually Reassessing Its Role, Psychotherapy Gallops into a New Era

The culture of therapy in America has gone through periods of dramatic change every 15 or 20 years with almost clock-like regularity, as succeeding generations... Read more

Article July 1, 1994

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

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