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Depression is an ill-defined diagnosis encompassing conditions with a variety of underlying causes. Recognizing different forms of depression is the key to... Read more

I can still remember sitting in a workshop at the American Orthopsychiatric Association conference in Chicago in 1982 and feeling dumbstruck. The presenters... Read more

Does the diagnosis of PTSD actually hamper therapists' ability to help combat veterans do the hard work of coming to terms with their war experiences? Read more

A mother deals with the news that her child will have a lifelong impairment. Read more

What civilian therapists need to know about military culture and life in a combat zone to best serve veterans struggling with war trauma. Read more

A young orphan in Rwanda learns to get beyond an experience of unimaginable horror. Read more

Long an acerbic critic of the trendy and faddish, Don Meichenbaum, one of the founders of CBT, is still determined to separate myth from reality in the world... Read more

How the skills of the group therapist differ from those of the individually-oriented practitioner. Read more

While partners caught in the anger merry-go-round invariably blame the other, both typically pass the anger back and forth like a shared virus. Read more

Our standard psychotherapeutic paradigm is unequal to the mammoth challenge of serving the troops who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's needed is a... Read more

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

The Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) is based on teaching people a basic set of self-stabilization skills that help reregulate the nervous system in the wake of... Read more

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Late adopter that I am, it doesn’t seem like so long ago that, after many, many attempts to learn how, I finally sent out my first e-mail, whispered... Read more

While it's common knowledge that childhood trauma can have far-reaching consequences for adult mental health, its impact on adult physical health is less... Read more

Hoarding is not only an individual pathology, but a metaphor for our consumption-crazed culture. Read more

A parent's failing health can stir up a hornet's nest of trouble among adult siblings. Read more

The internet may seem like a 21st-century nightmare version of the worst excesses of the marketplace. But it's creating new possibilities for connection and... Read more

For existential therapist Irvin Yalom, even depth-oriented therapy doesn't go deep enough. Read more

When it comes to the business of therapeutic practice, most practitioners have a lot to learn about how to use the new social media effectively. Read more

Advances in technology are challenging the idea that therapy must revolve around the traditional, face-to-face clinical encounter. Read more

A guide to the wealth of websites and message boards that can be useful to clients and therapists alike. Read more

Too often, a faltering memory is a source of not only everyday inconvenience, but paralyzing dread. Read more

How mindfulness can reduce the stress of multitasking and information overload. Read more

Have you ever noticed how often you surf the net or check e-mail when you feel bored or restless or depressed, as if relief is just a click away? The Internet... Read more

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We’ve become used to adolescents today using their bodies in a wide range of more or less painful ways to express who they are–piercing... Read more

During the past decade or so, a movement of “marriage savers” comprised of therapists, marriage-education programs, and religious and secular... Read more

These days, America seems to breed highly polarized and fractious debates, particularly concerning moral and social issues. Witness the bitter political... Read more