Truth and Reconciliation?
Healing the wounds of apartheidFrom the May/June 1997 issue “Ordinary South Africans are determined that the past be known, the better to insure that it is not repeated... Read more
Panning for Gold
Michael White and the Promise of Narrative TherapyAustralian narrative therapist Michael White captured the imagination of the therapy world by introducing the method of “externalization,” a way of... Read more
Miniature Roses
A therapist finally makes the long journey home"Mom, I think it's time to really forgive you, and maybe even me. But I'm still mad. I just don't know how to let go of it. Believe it or not, I've been trying... Read more
Riding Out the Storm
A therapist's guide to surviving burnoutEverything you ever wanted to know about surviving burnout Read more
Getting Well in the Fast Lane
Therapy on the information highway a strange fiction based on a stranger reality. Article first published in the September/October 1994 issue. TODAY, IN THE... Read more
It's Not My Fault!
Political Correctness v Therapeutic CorrectnessWhen Networker film critic and in-house provocateur Frank Pittman wrote this piece 25 years ago, the concept of “political correctness” was just beginning... Read more
Too Great a Price
From the July/August 1994 issue WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, MY FRIEND CAROL TALKED ME into going to a dance at our high school. Of course, we had... Read more
Duty of Care
From the July/August 1994 issue IN A WIDELY PUBLICIZED TRIAL last May anxiously followed by therapists around the country, a jury in Napa County... Read more
Treating Emotional Dysregulation in Kids & Adolescents
Practical, ready-to-use interventions to help kids and teens ease anxiety, improve mood, and stay in control. That’s what you’ll find in Treating... Read more
The Good Therapist
Continually Reassessing Its Role, Psychotherapy Gallops into a New EraThe culture of therapy in America has gone through periods of dramatic change every 15 or 20 years with almost clock-like regularity, as succeeding generations... Read more
The Mother Journey
Traveling on an Unmarked RoadBefore Molly Layton became a mother, she was a graduate student who pondered philosophy and allowed herself some existential angst. But becoming a first-time... Read more
Shared Passages
Freud codified the notion of sibling rivalry, which was already a widely accepted truth, saying it was natural that the introduction of a new sibling into a... Read more