The best form of risk management for your practice may be doing what you think is right. Read more

Although business as usual may no longer be an option for therapists, the adjustments required to stay afloat could prove to be incredibly generative, not just... Read more

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Learning to enhance performance by embracing doubt and fear. Read more

Attending to clients' mental health issues as part of a behavioral health team can be both stressful and exhilarating. Read more

The crisis in healthcare delivery presents therapists with a unique opportunity to help revamp the system and expand their practices. Read more

Ken Wilber is a thinker who definitely likes the sound of his own ideas, but still may have something to offer. Read more

In spite of the increased medicalization of psychiatric conditions represented by the DSM and the inroads of psychopharmacology, most of us still imagine that... Read more

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

Keynote presenters and attendees all step into the present at the 2007 Networker Symposium. Read more

How to continue to get the most out of life as you age. Read more

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

Dissecting the fantasy of heroism. Read more

How does a therapeutic alliance become more than that? Read more

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The good psychotherapist is someone who intuitively knows how to transform human conversation and relationship into a form of healing, and helps clients... Read more

A session with a homeless client recalls a long-ago lesson about accomplishing an impossible task. Read more

How did Sigmund Freud, a man who wrong about so many things, become such an important figure in our profession? Read more

At last count, therapists could choose from among 500 different treatment techniques. But after all these years, there's still no evidence that the overall... Read more

Facing the challenge of working with a dissembling adolescent in a blended family means changing the "official story" of the problem. Read more

In his new book, psychologist Philip Zimbardo, the researcher responsible for the famous Standford Prison Experiment, explores the nature of evil and explains... Read more

A new generation of filmmakers is taking us beyond the Americocentric world of mainstream cinema. Read more

Too many therapists underestimate the psychological trials of motherhood. Read more

The tragic confrontation at Waco, Texas, in 1993 taught us much about what to do to help traumatized children, and perhaps even more about what not to do. Read more

Whatever the skeptics say, our research editor argues that the last quarter-century has produced an astonishing amount of meaningful research. Here's the list... Read more

"If we look squarely at the fundamentals, it becomes apparent that therapy is neither science nor art—it's conversation. Conversation is at once the most... Read more

In honor of our 25th anniversary, we conducted the largest survey ever of who therapists believe have most influenced their practice. Here's the field's Top... Read more

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A professor skeptical of the clinical value of family therapy may be doing more to extend the legacy of systems therapy than anyone working with adolescents... Read more

A psychiatrist who's worked in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Israel leads a team of healthcare professionals into war-ravaged Gaza to see if Western healing methods can... Read more