An insightful look into working with typical male concerns in therapy, including pride, shame, armoring, and competitiveness.
The Man with the Beautiful Voice
Lillian Rubin’s moving account of her challenging psychotherapy with a man struggling with his disability. Reprinted from the book of the same title.
Family Therapy and Resistant Parents: The Child Cannot Wait
When do we shift from trying to work within the parent-child relationship to seeing the child as a separate entity needing to cope with a destructive parent?
The Path to Wholeness: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy
Therapist Natalie Rogers shares an overview of this growing field of humanistic psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy for Oppositional-Defiant Kids with Low Frustration Tolerance – and How to Help Their Parents, Too
Dr. Rice offers a new perspective on oppositional-defiant children based on temperament, and suggests effective therapeutic interventions for both parent and child.
Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients
Renik argues that psychoanalysis must move beyond theory and focus instead on effectiveness.
The Tao of Direction: Structure and Process in Clinical Supervision
Therapist Jay Reeve offers advice on balancing structured, direct instruction and process-oriented exploration in supervision sessions with new therapists.
Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes
Dr. Rabin shares lessons culled from 40 years of psychotherapy teaching and practice.
How To Be A Grown-up Even Around Your Own Parents
People don't become grown-ups until they realize that their parents, however wonderful, were badly misinformed and sometimes stark, raving mad.
Work Is Life: A Psychologist Looks at Identity and Work in America
In a discussion of the growing problem of work-life balance in American culture, Dr. Philipson shares the stories of clients whose overidentification with work ended in disaster.