As the boomers discover the joys and sorrows of becoming grandparents, they're putting their own generational stamp on a role that's as ancient as parenthood. Read more

Parenting and childhood today often seem to have more in common with abstract expressionism than with Norman Rockwell. But is this transformation of the nature... Read more

Although Salvador Minuchin is arguably the most influential clinician of the last half-century, his work is light-years away from the routinized approaches... Read more

The situation of young people like my daughter and families like mine reflects one aspect of a vast change in American families, which this issue of seeks to... Read more

What do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more

A new model of practice-building seeks to help therapists prosper by reengaging them in their local professional communities. Read more

While some warn that the conveyor belt that once transported adolescents into adulthood has broken down, other insist the increasing number of adult children... Read more

A new book argues that storytelling, the foundation of most psychotherapy, is an evolutionary adaptation that vastly expanded the range of human possibility. Read more

Given that most couples never manage to change each other very much, teaching them to forgive each other's imperfections is a vastly underutilized therapeutic... Read more

A love affair between a man and his car. Read more

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Constant Uncertainty about who's a friend and who's a foe, the mundane chaos of the classroom, rules that always seem to be changing—an ordinary day at... Read more

In the last few decades, getting ahead, always a leitmotif in American society, gave way to a collective hallucination of striking it filthy rich. As we awaken... Read more

When a child is diagnosed with an autism disorder, everything in a family changes. Good-enough parenting must give way to the demands of uber-parenting: always... Read more

You think the toboggan ride of your 401(k) has been rough? A survivor of the Great Depression muses on what that era taught her about managing the unmanageable. Read more

Carrying the Hope: Autism's 5 Core Deficits Defined Read more

The controversy over whether the ever-expanding number of recommended vaccines is putting children at risk for autism. Read more

Everything you need to know about becoming a media celebrity. Read more

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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

In his broadside against modern psychiatry, a historian claims that the entire profession has been undermined by the blind pursuit pf profit, bureaucratic... Read more

In addition to being a tribute to the love, commitment, and gritty hard work of the families and clinicians who try to help people with ASD, this issue is an... Read more

Helping a child move through grief sometimes means avoiding the temptation to ease her pain. Read more

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

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An ambitious empirical study oh how biological temperament steers people toward a particular personality type as a romantic partner offers the prospect of... Read more

What does the newly passed mental health parity law mean for your practice? Read more

Clinicians have long considered theories that emphasize inborn predispositions as antiquated and even reactionary. but the work of researchers like Jerome... Read more

Too often couples make contrasts in temperament into negative stories about how their partner won't change. Could it just be that every couple is The Odd... Read more