Editor's Note
Livia Kent
Whatever Happened to Family Therapy?
Today's Renaissance in Systems ThinkingIn their rush to change family systems—if not the world—family therapists didn’t anticipate that they too would be affected by structural forces. Read more
Love, Separation, and Power
Resolving a Mother–Daughter ConflictThe power that parents have to influence the wellbeing of their adult children is often underestimated. Read more
When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs
Are We Helping or Harming?Today’s culture of therapy both reflects and contributes to our nation’s ever-growing embrace of individualism—for better and, sometimes, for worse. Read more
When Adult Siblings Struggle
Three Steps Toward RepairThe session was supposed to be a consultation between two middle-aged sisters—my client, Annie, and her sister, Carol—about sharing their multigenerational... Read more
Estrangement 101
Helping Parents Reengage Their KidsHelping parents process their own childhood pain is a difficult but necessary part of helping them reconnect with an estranged child. Read more
Mediating Estrangement
How to Help Family Members CoexistAfter journeying through the Family Dialogue process, estranged family members often end up adjusting the very notion of what togetherness means. Read more
Life Without Atticus
When Siblings Parent Each OtherChildren need an adult who provides safety, attunement, empathy, acceptance, and boundaries. Can a sibling be the next best thing? Read more
Extra Feature
Unlearning Weight Stigma
The Latest Science on Weight and TraumaIt's time to untangle weight gain and binge eating from trauma. Read more
Departments
Is Meditation as Safe as We Think?
The Risks We Don’t Talk About
When Therapists Blame Themselves
Using Regret to Deepen Our Work
Bursting the Bubble of Individual Therapy
The Need to See Your Clients in a Relational Context
Burnout and the Body
Emily Nagoski on Naming the Real Enemy
Suicide as a State of Being
One Man's Ongoing Struggle