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There’s a powerful tool that you can use to improve client outcomes regardless of therapeutic issue, modality or population. And the best part? You've already got it. It’s you. Victor Yalom shares insights on how to hone your clinical self.

Preeminent psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg doesn’t back down in this series of three diagnostic Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) sessions with a paranoid client struggling with suicidal depression after being left by his girlfriend.

In this rare 1984 lecture in London, John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, presents his impactful ideas on the role of the early parent-child relationships in development across the lifespan.

In this remarkable video, legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Otto Kernberg manages to distill the essential concepts of his lifetime’s work with personality disorders into a single interview.

This rare 1981 video of Heinz Kohut's presentation, given just days before his death, features his powerful reflections on empathy.

Regardless of orientation, there are several core therapeutic elements that underscore any successful treatment. Discover what they are, and how to leverage them-- complete with lectures and clinical vignettes.

Dive deeper into the basic, yet critical, techniques for successfully treating highly resistant clients that work across the spectrum of approaches and orientations.

See how psychodynamic principles can be adapted for effective brief, time-limited therapy with a depressed, 74 year-old man.

Explore how to use therapeutic setbacks as powerful learning opportunities for both clinician and client.  

Clinician and researcher Usha Tummala-Narra addresses the challenges of not only practicing, but of living multicultural competence. 

Working in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship requires therapists to be fully engaged, and take risks in revealing themselves. But utilizing the transference and counter-transference makes for rewarding and powerful therapy.

A therapist explores the complex feelings that arise when a client terminates abruptly.

Self-care, while helpful, is not the royal road to countertransference management.

Psychotherapist Chris Peterson makes a strong case for welcoming all of our intense feelings—both loving and hateful—into the therapy process with clients to deepen the therapy relationship and its healing potential.

Counselors can most definitely benefit from the age-old adage “Healer, heal thyself!”

Explore White privilege in the psychology profession and the importance of confronting it with education, curiosity & humility.

Counselor educator/clinician Jude Austin offers wisdom and survival tips for both student and teacher from the trenches of graduate school.

A psychotherapist explores client-therapist boundaries and termination issues in a particularly intensive course of therapy.

At the fascinating and complex intersection of polio, psychoanalysis and sexuality, healing begins.

A psychoanalytic psychotherapist wrestles with her analysand’s challenging negative transference.

Benjamin Meyer believes that disclosing his struggles with learning differences to clients has strengthened his therapeutic relationships.

Dr. Rabin shares lessons culled from 40 years of psychotherapy teaching and practice.

After accidentally missing a session, a therapist uses the here-and-now to repair the ruptured bond with his client and in doing so, opens the door to deeper insight.

A pediatric clinician shares the rewards and challenges of working with terminally ill children and their families.