Following the Money
Why fewer and fewer men are becoming therapists.If the male perspective is lost entirely from our profession, the culture will once again see emotional work as women's work, and I think we all will lose Read more
Breathing Room
Creating a Zone of Safety and Connection for Angry Black TeensTherapy is about healing and also about promoting connection. The healing starts when we lance the wounds our clients bring in, help them vent their pain and... Read more
Have a Good Day
But don't ask me to smile!From the July/August 1994 issue SHE WORE A SEMITRANSPARENT WHITE SHIRT, AND underneath I could detect her fine lace bra. When she leaned toward me to take my... Read more
Move Toward
What if the things you don’t like about yourself aren’t character flaws – but parts of you doing their best to protect you? The inner... Read more
Long-Distance Therapy
Helping an isolated family heal their traumaFrom the May/June 1994 issue IN THE SPRING OF 1991, MY MOTHER, A MENNONITE AND a nurse-midwife, called me from rural Pennsylvania. “Can you give... Read more
Friendship with a Price Tag?
What does account for a goodly chunk of the positive change that clients experience from therapy, the outcome research shows, is the time-honored therapeutic... Read more
Emerging from the Shadows
Looking Beyond the Borderline DiagnosisIn the minds of many therapists, the borderline diagnosis has come to be a code word for trouble. To get past our sense of helplessness with these clients, we... Read more
Swallowed Alive
Not surprisingly, almost nothing makes children, including adolescents, feel as insecure and adrift as parents who also feel insecure and adrift, tossed by... Read more
Turning Down the Temperature
Handling one of marriage's most explosive crisesHow to cool down the temperature with couples facing the crisis of infidelity. Read more
It's More Complicated Than That
Don't Smooth Out Life's Wrinkles Says Salvador MinuchinOne of family therapy's pioneers worries that today's brief techniques smooth out too many of life's wrinkles. Read more
Bringing Up Father
How My Children Taught Me the Secret of FatherhoodWhen author Frank Pittman became a father, he discovered that the childhood absence of his own father left him with no idea how to relate to his kids. This... Read more
Zen and the Art of Therapy
Gazzangia, M,S. (1985). The social brain. New York: Basic Books.2. Haley, J. (1986). Uncommon therapy. New York: Norton.3. Kapleau, P. (1989). The three... Read more
My Sister's Keeper
My parents never talked to me about Sally's illness. They couldn't have explained it to me even if they'd wanted to, for no one adequately explained it to... Read more
