Psychotherapy.net Featured Articles Hollywood on the Couch by Dennis Palumbo, MA, MFT        An entertaining and insightful read about practicing psychotherapy with the Hollywood crowd. Shades of Gray: When a therapist and her client are survivors of child abuse by Lisa Cassidy, PhD        A therapist candidly explores whether she is ready to work with a client with Dissociative Identity Disorder who triggers her own childhood trauma.

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Art of Psychotherapy

Hollywood on the Couch — Dennis Palumbo, MA, MFT

Letting the Patient Matter: Some Thoughts on Irvin Yalom's View of the Therapeutic Relationship — Barbara Jamison

Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think — James Bugental, PhD

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (excerpt) — Irvin Yalom, MD

The Gift of Therapy — Irvin Yalom, MD

The Path to Wholeness: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy — Natalie Rogers, PhD

Therapeutic Alliance, Focus, and Formulation: Thinking Beyond the Traditional Therapy Orientations — Robert-Jay Green, PhD

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Beyond Traditional Practice

9/11 One Year Later: A Psychotherapist Reflects on His Experiences at Ground Zero — Tab Ballis, LCSW

Angels in Crisis: How Mobile Crisis Intervention Changes Lives — Bill Martin, PhD

Breaking Barriers to Doing Corporate Consulting — Louis A. Perrott, PhD

Transition Into Sports Psychology — Joan Steidinger, PhD

Work Is Life, A Psychologist Looks at Identity and Work in America — Ilene Philipson, PhD

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Challenging Therapy Cases

Resistant Clients: We've All Had Them; Here's How to Help Them! — Clifton Mitchell, PhD

Shades of Gray: When a therapist and her client are survivors of child abuse — Lisa Cassidy, PhD

Tyranny of Niceness: A Psychotherapeutic Challenge — Evelyn Sommers, PhD

When the Therapist Leaves: A Personal Account of an Unusual Termination — Amy Urdang, MA, LCPC

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Child, Couples and Family Therapy

Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources — Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, PhD

Psychotherapy for Oppositional-Defiant Kids with Low Frustration Tolerance … and How to Help Their Parents, Too — David Rice, PhD

The Family Research Project: A Summary — Stephanie Brown, PhD

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Critiques of the Field

Practical Psychoanalysis — Owen Renik, MD

Self-Help Snake Oil and Self-Improvement Urban Legends — Steven Kraus, PhD

The Psychiatric Repression of Thomas Szasz: Its Social and Political Significance — Ron Leifer, MD

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Culture, Diversity, and Psychotherapy

A British Psychologist’s View of Psychotherapy in China — Stephen F. Myler, PhD

Commentary by a Chinese Psychotherapist in the United States — Hui Qi Tong, MD, PhD

Food for the Soul — Myrtle Heery, PhD, MFT

Transforming the Wounds of Racism: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Implications for Psychotherapy — Saira Bains, MA

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Fiction, Poetry, Humor

A Few Simple Questions — Saul Spiro

Existential Poems — Tom Greening, PhD

Gottman and Gray: The Two Johns — Hara Estroff Marano

The Schopenhauer Cure (excerpt) — Irvin Yalom, MD

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Supervision and Consultation

The Tao of Direction: Structure and Process in Clinical Supervision — Jay Reeve, PhD

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Therapist Growth and Reflections

Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes — Herbert Rabin, PhD, ABPP

How To Be A Grownup Even Around Your Own Parents — Frank Pittman, MD

In Search of Self: My Therapy with Rogers, Satir, Bugental, Polster, Yalom, & Maslow — Deb Hammels, MA

The Empty Chair: Making Our Absence Less Traumatic for Everyone — Ann Steiner, PhD, MFT, CGP

The Therapist Mourns His Mother's Death: Being With Clients While Heartbroken — Bob Livingstone, LCSW