Psychotherapists working in nursing facilities during COVID need to appreciate the challenges facing their patients as well as those of the staff serving them.
What Root Canal Surgery Taught Me About Being a Therapist
What can you learn about the mind-body connection during a root canal? Victor Yalom shares his hard-earned insights.
Clients Deal with Ethics Too
Over and above their own professional ethical obligations, clinicians must help clients address their own lived ethical dilemmas.
Dr. Shelley F. Diamond: A Psychotherapist Facing Death
After being diagnosed with aggressive terminal cancer, a psychotherapist shares how she addressed grief, gratitude and loss professionally and personally.
In Praise of Termination
Termination may sometimes be the best therapeutic decision a clinician can make.
Through the Looking Glass: Helping Clients with Retirement
Working with older clients requires helping them address the challenges of retirement, whether it be of the “cliff” or “transition” variety.
Whose Exposure Is It, Anyway?
A therapist controls his own countertransference through an intriguing process of reverse exposure with response prevention.
The Subtle Art of Therapeutic Rudeness
In order to be optimally effective with clients, we must at times practice the art of intentional rudeness.
Existentialism and the Environmental Crisis: The Urgency of Meaning
Helping our clients express existential concerns, especially around climate change, may be key to their psychological survival.
On the Continuum of Real to Imagined Abandonment
A therapist’s personal struggles can provide a roadmap not only for their own growth, but for that of their clients.