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Gone in 60 Seconds: How to Handle a Mental Health Workshop Heckler

Posted by Howard Rosenthal, EdD on 5/9/13 - 11:31 AM

Like most of you, as a psychotherapist, book author, and educator, I am often asked to give workshops, and educational seminars. For many of us, sharing our unique expertise is a part of our professional mission. A while back I was contacted by a church group who wanted to give a series of eight different mental health workshops during the spring. Each of the workshops would be presented by a different expert. I was going to be the final presenter, number...

The Lying Artist

Posted by Catherine Ambrose, LCSW

The Therapist and the Fee: Why Everything Works out and Also Doesn’t

Posted by Simon Yisrael Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW

Self-Care for Therapists

Posted by Elizabeth Sullivan, MFT

Psychoanalysis is Alive and Well

Posted by Kim Chernin, PhD on 3/28/13 - 11:55 AM

Although we have evolved many schools since Freud articulated psychoanalytic theory at the turn of the 20th Century, in almost all of them conspicuous analytic features remain. These are so familiar that for the most part they exercise their dominance without our being aware of them or their origins. We may think psychoanalysis has been discredited and that almost no one practices it any longer, but there are ways psychoanalytic theory is present in our listening and thinking because of...

Vanquishing the Inner Critic

Posted by Pete Walker, MFT

Through the Anger Looking Glass

Posted by John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD

When East Doesn't Meet West: Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Posted by Kim Chernin, PhD

The "L" Word

Posted by Catherine Ambrose, LCSW on 1/15/13 - 2:15 PM

Lisa hefts herself heavily up the stairs to my office. She must come up two feet to a stair, like a small child. She is breathless by the time she gets to my office and has to take a few moments to collect herself. As she settles in, I realize she has gained even more weight in the few weeks since I last saw her. She is huge, solemn, powerful, inert. Once she is seated, nothing moves but her head and...

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