By Deb Kory, PsyD
on 8/22/17 - 4:11 PM
The capacity to be wise and spacious around others’ pain, the sense of tenderhearted compassion that comes so readily through us in our roles as a therapist, often tricks us into thinking we don’t need help with our own struggles.
By Howard Rosenthal, EdD
on 11/19/13 - 5:55 PM
The late 1960s and 1970s were exciting times for the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. Much of the enthusiasm was spawned by a body of landmark research. At the time experts postulated that humans had two distinct nervous systems: the voluntary and the involuntary. The voluntary nervous system allows you to brew your morning cup of Joe or take out the trash before you leave for work. The involuntary or autonomic nervous system controls your heart rate, blood pressure and...
By Simon Yisrael Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW
on 6/18/13 - 5:45 PM
It’s the kind of telephone call that every therapist gets and every therapist hates to get. “I’m sorry to disappoint you on such short notice, but I can’t come in today.” It was a patient who had come only once before, the week prior, and though he was articulate about what troubled him, one could discern that he was deeply conflicted about who he wanted help from or whether he even wanted help at all to solve his problems or even ease...
