What if you could predict how well a client would respond to psychotherapy? What if a simple test could tell you whether a patient needed psychodynamic... Read more

Do childhood trauma and a chaotic family environment cause adult borderline personality disorder (BPD)? Common clinical wisdom says yes, but new results are... Read more

This issue of the Networker is about what coaches like Andrew can teach psychotherapists, and the role that challenge and incorruptible truth-telling can play... Read more

A therapist from a working-class background finds himself on a surprising mid-career journey into the belly of 21st-century capitalism as an executive coach. Read more

Social psychologist Jonathon Haidt offers a perspective on why we vote the way we do that you’re unlikely to have read about in the deluge of mainstream... Read more

Tens of thousands of miles away from his practice, a therapist accidentally discovers a new sense of purpose, unable to distinguish the act of giving from the... Read more

While the “empty chair” was once identified as a popular Gestalt therapy technique, for many therapists today, faced with empty appointment hours... Read more

More than 60 years after its Broadway debut, a classic play continues to cast a haunting spell. Read more

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When a couple enters therapy to address sexual problems, are their fundamental issues confined to the bedroom? Rarely, says Susan Johnson, originator of... Read more

We all know what happens to a child when a parent is consistently unpredictable, frightening, or absent. That child often grows into someone who has a... Read more

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo knows a thing or two about tough guys. In 1971, his notorious Stanford prison experiment, originally planned for two weeks, had... Read more

With nearly eight million Americans affected by the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and tens of thousands of troops returning from military... Read more

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

Imagine a world populated by college undergraduates. A world filled with binge drinkers and sleep-deprived procrastinators tweeting their sexual exploits to... Read more

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

We live in a culture of denial, especially about the grim reality of climate change. Sure, we want to savor the occasional shrimp cocktail without having to... Read more

In this era of medical necessity and evidence-based therapies, it’s easy to lose sight of a basic truth. We heal not through prescriptions and procedures... Read more

A surprise bestseller shows us the crucial roles that even minor habits can play in individual and group behavior. Read more

It’s probably fair to say that most teens loathe the very idea of therapy. Yet, with confused and troubled adolescents needing our help more than ever, 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

While some believe the incidence of school bullying has reached epidemic proportions, therapists remain largely uninformed about the nature of the problem and... Read more

Even though talking and listening to people may come naturally to most therapists (if not, we’re in the wrong profession), as the writers in this issue make... Read more

Sometimes the places we long to visit speak to needs that go much deeper than our appetite for exotic sights. Read more

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Even in this supposedly "individualistic" society, people identify deeply with their group or "tribe." Particularly in times of social, economic, or political... Read more

In a world where differences between people have become increasingly demonized, more than ever, the therapist's job is to help people expand their circle of... Read more

Born a serf, die a serf; born "phlegmatic" or "choleric," die that way. [...] modern times (and even now in some parts of the world), the very idea that... Read more

[...] with so many contending schedules and dietary demands, is there such a thing as a family mealtime anymore? Compared to the still-life portrait of family... Read more

Since the economy went over the cliff, she, like many thousands of her bright-eyed cohorts, has been languishing in a limbo of forced unemployment. Read more