Increasingly, neuroscience is making it clear that therapists rely too much on the consulting room drama of insight and not enough on good, old-fashioned... Read more

In the centerfold of this issue (pp. 53-56), you'll find details about a raft of new website features, learning opportunities, and resources that can enhance... Read more

These laws are patterned on long-standing statutes that allow for involuntary commitment of people with severe psychiatric disorders. There's one key... Read more

This information shouldn't be buried on the website. If you can't discover quickly and easily what'll happen to your personal information, it's best not to... Read more

[Michael Moore] hammers away at the now-established fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the only place on earth regularly searched and... Read more

We'll live simply," my rather simple-minded husband said the next morning, over instant coffee with our son and me at the motel we'd checked into. "We don't... Read more

Neurofeedback is one of a group of new technologies that promises not only to treat the symptoms of mood, attention, and learning disorders, but to address the... Read more

The publication of his first book earned him an audience with the Pope. Since then, psychiatrist Daniel Siegel has continued to demonstrate a visionary's... Read more

They set up on either side of the patient's bed and reassure the unconscious patient and his relatives that they don't have to do anything. [Margaret Pasquesi... Read more

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Sometimes, raising a child is less an act of love than something much wilder. Read more

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Getting a depressed client mobilized to take the initial steps toward change can be the key to treatment. Read more

Therapy can too easily become reduced to two talking heads, spinning out tales. But treatment can be intensified and enlivened by tapping into our immediate... Read more

Despite all the hoopla, the dropout rate for Viagra exceeds 40 percent. A case explores the aspects of middle-aged sexuality that no drug can address. Read more

Dualistic thinking separates us from our own experience and offers the illusion that we can achieve peace and pleasure by somehow casting out our problems. Read more

The practice of therapy, for both therapist and client, is transformed when we connect with our fundamental core, a process that involves learning to listen... Read more

Until recently, our understanding of "enlightenment" has been shrouded in spiritual hero worship. But we're beginning to see it as a thoroughly natural... Read more

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A woman who wants to learn a new way to be with her mother teaches her therapist what it means to step out of his own comfort zone. Read more

Two recent landmark overviews of research separate myth from reality in the treatment of substance abuse. Read more

in 1972, David Rosenhan shook the foundations of psychiatry with a classic experiment that stunningly demonstrated how the world is always warped by the lens... Read more

For the past 20 years, the American criminal justice system has dealt with juvenile offenders in a way it never did before: by treating them like adults who... Read more

A man who grew up rescuing the women around him learns that there's no saving someone from sorrow. Sometimes the best we can do—all we can do—is offer a... Read more

If therapy is in some sense a confrontation in which you must come face-to-face with your disowned self, it's a real advantage to choose a therapist who's your... Read more

In a single, unforeseen moment, a self-lacerating young woman takes a risk and discovers, deep in her bones, why we're alive. Read more

What really makes therapy work? Clinicians invest prodigious amounts of time and energy trying to find out--comparing notes with colleagues, poring over... Read more

We were therapists counseling men who broke their children's bodies, raped their wives, killed those they were closest to. How could I describe the black pit... Read more

Is it appropriate to bring up the use of subtly racist language in a session, even if it doesn’t deal with the client’s presenting issue? Always, says one... Read more