A clinician-turned-administrator develops a therapeutic software product to connect with and help at-risk college students.
Trusting Her Voices: Trusting My Own
A therapist must subdue the voices in his head so that he may trust those in the head of one of his clients.
The One Thing a Therapist Should Never Say to a Client
Clinician, professor, and best-selling author Howard Rosenthal reflects on a less-than-positive graduate school experience.
The Modular View of the Mind
On the heels of his previous post which offered the self-as-I-Phone metaphor, therapist Dan Williams now invites us to consider the modular mind as its own internal family system, and as such amenable to systems theory-oriented therapy.
Jose Rey on Psychotropic Medications: A Primer for Psychotherapists
Pharmacologist Jose Rey shares crucial insights that psychotherapists need for discussing psychotropic drugs with both clients and prescribers.
In Praise of the Life of a Psychotherapist
Looking beyond day-to-day rigors and challenges from behind the couch, seasoned clinician Catherine Ambrose reflects on the gratitude and growth she continues to experience helping others.
Finding Playfulness in the Seriousness
Play therapist Rachel Altvater shares her observations about the importance of play in the life of the psychotherapist, whether or not they work with children.
Why the Therapist
Our editor Lawrence Rubin wonders aloud why it is that the therapist’s children don’t simply heed his sagacious advice.
On Holding Your Tongue
How often are we tempted to insert brilliant interpretations of our client’s dream into therapy? Dream researcher and psychotherapist Leslie Ellis suggests that for our clients’ sake, it may be more clinically prudent to “hold our tongue.”
Shame Part 2: Shame Proneness
Shame-proneness sets us up to feel bad about ourselves in most, if not all, situations and relationships. In this, the second in a series of blogs about shame, psychotherapist and author Jacqueline Simon-Gunn explores this dark and destructive – yet resolvable – inner tendency.