Therapeutic Issue / Advanced Clinical Skills

Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off—and Staying Off—Psychiatric Drugs

From Darkness to Hope: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy

Integrating Generative AI and Digital Play Therapy into Clinical Practice

Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions

The Wisdom of Therapist Uncertainty

How to Use Structured Writing to Help Clients Unclutter

Dialogue 1: How Do We Define Collaborative Writing?

Deploying Therapeutic Airbags to Enhance Clinical Outcome

My Romance with Narrative Letters: Counter-Storying Through Letter Writing

The CORE Approach to Therapy: Helping Jennie Find Resilience

Cognitive Reframing is the Key to Counselling High-Conflict Couples

Breaking the Rules: When Parroting is the Best Approach in Therapy

The Gift of Presence in Grief Counseling: A Path Forward

Radical Listening: A Key to Therapeutic Success

Victor Yalom on Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mastery

Powerful Ways to Improve Your Presence with Suicidal Clients

Perfectionism in Highly Intelligent Clients: Therapeutic Strategies

Acknowledging the Impact of Cancel Culture on Therapy

Countering Client Hostility with Radical Candor

Exploring Our Client’s Multiverse

Psychodermatology: Understanding the Mental Health Component of Skin Conditions

Overcoming the Pernicious Chronicle

Sometimes I Also Feel Lazy: A Clinician Reflects on Self-Disclosure

The Four Brahmaviharas and the Quiet Inner Voice

The Queen’s Gambit and Me: The Surprising Similarity Between Therapy and Chess

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Healing the Authoritarian Wound Through Writing: 8 Writing Exercises to Share with Clients

When a Client Resists, I Persist

The Double Standard

Tools to Help My Patients

Barry Duncan on The Heart and Soul of Change

Listening Up and Leaning In: Active Listening in Therapeutic Relationships

Working with Silence

Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy

Dreaming of the Future

Shame Part 4: I Deserve to Feel Bad, Because I am Bad

Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy

The Internal Critic: Friend or Foe?

The Lose-Lose Comment: A Therapist

Shame Part 2: Shame Proneness

Allen Frances on the DSM-5, Mental Illness and Humane Treatment

Imagine You Are a Smart Phone

How To Help Your Clients Undo What They Haven’t Yet Done

Bruce Wampold on What Actually Makes Us Good Therapists

Tony Rousmaniere on Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists

Ayahuasca Is My Therapist (Or Is It?)

Louis Cozolino on the Integration of Neuroscience into Psychotherapy—and its Limitations

Look at me!

Brian McNeill on the Art of Supervision

What Remains: The Aftermath of Patient Suicide

Ronald Siegel on Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

Gary Greenberg on the DSM and Its Woes

Psychotherapy and the Care of Souls

Bad Therapy: What You Didn’t Learn in Grad School

Francine Shapiro on the Evolution of EMDR Therapy

When the Therapist Loves and Hates

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Scott Miller on Why Most Therapists Are Just Average (and How We Can Improve)

George Silberschatz on Psychotherapy Research and Its Discontents

Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors

Psychotherapy: Terminal or Interminable

Sleep and the Therapist: A Poem

Listening versus Hearing in Psychotherapy

Treating Special Clients in Psychotherapy

Working in the Here-and-Now of the Therapeutic Relationship

Trusting the Client as the Agent of Change

It’s Over Now: Termination and Countertransference

How Therapists Fail: Why Too Many Clients Drop Out of Therapy Prematurely

Owen Renik on Practical Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Mardi Horowitz on Psychotherapy Research and Happiness

The Psychiatric Repression of Thomas Szasz: Its Social and Political Significance

What Do We Believe and Whom Do We Trust?

Thomas Szasz on Freedom and Psychotherapy

Nick Cummings on the Past and Future of Psychotherapy

Larry Beutler on Science and Psychotherapy

The Gift of Therapy

When the Therapist Leaves: A Personal Account of an Unusual Termination

Tyranny of Niceness: A Psychotherapeutic Challenge

The Man with the Beautiful Voice

Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes

Work Is Life: A Psychologist Looks at Identity and Work in America

Resistant Clients: We’ve All Had Them; Here’s How to Help Them!

Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?

Self-Help Snake Oil and Self-Improvement Urban Legends

When a Patient Dies . . . Should the Therapist Attend the Funeral?

Therapeutic Alliance, Focus, and Formulation: Thinking Beyond the Traditional Therapy Orientations

“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better”: A New Mantra for Psychotherapists