Morality and Therapy
THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE NOT#160; been friendly to psychotherapists.#160; Probably no other contemporary field has suffered so many widely publicized body blows... Read more
The Facts of Life
Learning to Connect the DotsThis piece started out as a reportorial piece on sex therapy, but nontherapist Fred Wistow soon blew past that assignment to investigate the ways in which our... Read more
Notes from an Only Child
Rosemary, not unexpectedly, had other ideas. By the time Christopher turned 5, she was saying that it was time for more kids, time for a real family. I mumbled... Read more
Incorrigible
We need more realistic expectations about the possibilities of human transformation Read more
The Wolf at the Door
SUDDENLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY AS IT HAD ALL BEGUN, it was over. Six hours later, Kip woke up. He cried and moved his fingers and his toes. He fought like a tiger... Read more
The Sibling Conection
Strengthening the Sibling BondThe therapist likened the boys to a football team, with Sam as the quarterback. He asked them whether they would allow their father to coach them to become a... Read more
The Shadow of a Doubt
The False Memory Debate Strikes at the Heartof Our Belief in a Just WorldFor many clinicians, the false memory debate of the 1990s was a chilling experience, rife with accusations that therapists had “implanted” fictitious... Read more
Nunna Yer Beeswax
No-talk Therapy with AdolescentsWhat to do when the standard techniques of joining provoke furious silence Read more
The Age of Interruption
On Hold in a Call-Waiting WorldAs today's hyperkinetic families struggle to create the semblance of a shared life out of the frantic and conflicting schedules of their members, the... Read more
Married to the Mob
A love story that is refreshingly unromanticWharton set her story in 1870, in the New York of her youth, a time that spawned heroines bursting the bounds of societal restraint and struggling to be free... Read more
The Bottom Line
A primer on managing managed careFrom the July/August 1994 PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS WHO WANT TO SURVIVE TODAY must know how to work smarter, and market and provide quality customer service. It... Read more
New Science for Psychotherapy
Can we predict how therapy will progress?Psychologists Robert-Jay Green and Paul D. Werner of the California School of Professional Psychology insist that family therapists who don't rethink their... Read more