In praise of denial. Read more

There are those who step beyond the usual comfort zone of therapeutic practice, at the risk of finding both their personal safety and their entire worldview... Read more

CBT offers a clinical toolbox that ensures that treatment never becomes merely unfocused chitchat. Read more

Will all we've learned about treating combat stress and psychological trauma since Vietnam help us handle the tsunami of mental health problems the Iraq War is... Read more

In gentle, compassionate language, The Needs of the Dying helps us through the last chapter of our lives. Author David Kessler has identified key areas of... Read more

A new book asserting that men and women have fundamentally different brains has stirred more than its fair share of controversy. Read more

This fall, at a time when competent, sensible leadership seems in especially short supply around the globe, three films appeared almost simultaneously to... Read more

EMDR helps a young Irag War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

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A therapist helps his anxious clients discover that be not resisting what the present moment offers, they can find a way out of their suffering. Read more

The search for the elusive experience of being "in the moment" isn't as complicated as you think. All it takes is a cup of tea, a walk, a question, a blessing... Read more

How would it feel to sit completely still for a week, not communicating with anyone, just tuning in to the seemingly chaotic jumble of your own thoughts? A... Read more

All of us ruminate, bringing up the cud of old, unresolved problems. But far from being idle mind chatter, most of these mental distractions are actually the... Read more

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Esther Perel explains why new parents need to prioritize their sex lives instead of leaving at the bottom of the to-do list. Read more

And yet, I wondered, if we didn't have a theory of adult love and emotion, how could we truly understand what marriage was all about, let alone help couples... Read more

It takes time—measured in years, not weeks,—for couples to find their bearings again after the birth of a child, and many never do. Read more

All couples fight, but the fights that really define the relationship are always the same thing: whether partners feel they have a safe, secure connection with... Read more

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan Yale University Press. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-300-11337-4 Nature vs. nurture is one of our most long-running intellectual... Read more

"Complicated grief" resulting from unresolved guilt, anger, shame, and regret can fester on for many years. Read more

Many therapists in once-thriving practices are reporting that these days, it's a battle to stay solvent. Read more

Research can tell us a great deal about what works and what doesn't both in couples' relationships and couples therapy. Read more

After studying 3,000 couples in the past three decades, researcher John Gottman and his wife Julie are combining his research and her clinical savvy in a... Read more

A Gottman Method therapist coaches couples to build marital friendships, rather than trying to engineer dramatic breakthroughs. Read more

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Step 1--The first aspect of this treatment approach is educational: teaching the client and family about AD/HD and the typical difficulties it causes. This... Read more

The difficulty young people are having moving away from home today is producing confusion for both parents and kids. Read more

Her meticulous memoir, In the Shadow of Fame, goes to the heart of the basic question: what's it like to live with an icon? Bloland chronicles the shadow that... Read more

A veteran therapist draws from her years of clinical practice and personal experiences to meet every teenage client where they are. Read more

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