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Art of Psychotherapy

'When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better': A New Mantra for Psychotherapists — Barry L. Duncan, PhD and Scott D. Miller, PhD

Emotional Flashback Management in the Treatment of Complex PTSD — Pete Walker, MFT

Hollywood on the Couch — Dennis Palumbo, MA, MFT

Lessons from the Depths: Scuba Diving and Psychotherapy with Men — Jeff Sharp, PhD

Letting the Patient Matter: Some Thoughts on Irvin Yalom's View of the Therapeutic Relationship — Barbara Jamison

Looking Out the Patient’s Window Redux: Self-disclosure and Genuineness — Irvin Yalom, MD

Practical Psychoanalysis — Owen Renik, MD

Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think — James Bugental, PhD

Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success? — Mark A. Hubble, PhD and Barry L. Duncan, PsyD, Scott Miller, PhD

The Gift of Therapy — Irvin Yalom, MD

The Path to Wholeness: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy — Natalie Rogers, PhD

Therapeutic Alliance, Focus, and Formulation: Thinking Beyond the Traditional Therapy Orientations — Robert-Jay Green, PhD

Beyond Traditional Practice

9/11 One Year Later: A Psychotherapist Reflects on His Experiences at Ground Zero — Tab Ballis, LCSW

A Psychotherapist's Guide to Facebook and Twitter: Why Clinicians Should Give a Tweet! — Keely Kolmes, PsyD

Angels in Crisis: How Mobile Crisis Intervention Changes Lives — Bill Martin, PhD

Breaking Barriers to Doing Corporate Consulting — Louis A. Perrott, PhD

Healing Trauma Through the Body: The Way In is the Way Out — Ariel Giarretto, MFT

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Patients: Hope in the Trenches — Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD, MS

Transition Into Sports Psychology — Joan Steidinger, PhD

Weekends at Bellevue: A Memoir (Excerpt) — Julie Holland, MD

Work Is Life, A Psychologist Looks at Identity and Work in America — Ilene Philipson, PhD

Challenging Therapy Cases

H2O Under the Bridge: A Case of Trichotillomania — Elias Aboujaode, MD

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Patients: Hope in the Trenches — Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD, MS

Resistant Clients: We've All Had Them; Here's How to Help Them! — Clifton Mitchell, PhD

Shades of Gray: When a therapist and her client are survivors of child abuse — Lisa Cassidy, PhD

The Man with the Beautiful Voice — Lillian B. Rubin, PhD

Tyranny of Niceness: A Psychotherapeutic Challenge — Evelyn Sommers, PhD

What Do We Believe and Whom Do We Trust? — Jeffrey Kottler, PhD

When a Patient Dies... Should the Therapist Attend the Funeral? — Richard P. Halgin, PhD

When the Therapist Leaves: A Personal Account of an Unusual Termination — Amy Urdang, MA, LCPC

Child, Couples and Family Therapy

Family Therapy and Resistant Parents: The Child Cannot Wait — Leon Rosenberg, PhD

Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources — Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, PhD

Getting Off to a Powerful Start in Couples Therapy — Ellyn Bader, PhD

My How Couples Therapy has Changed! Attachment, Love and Science — Sue Johnson, EdD

Psychotherapy for Oppositional-Defiant Kids with Low Frustration Tolerance — and How to Help Their Parents, Too — David Rice, PhD

The Family Research Project: A Summary — Stephanie Brown, PhD

Critiques of the Field

Beyond Psychotherapy: Working Outside the Medical Model — John A. Martin, PhD

Cancer and The Secret — Regina Huelsenbeck, PhD

Self-Help Snake Oil and Self-Improvement Urban Legends — Steven Kraus, PhD

The Psychiatric Repression of Thomas Szasz: Its Social and Political Significance — Ron Leifer, MD

Culture, Diversity, and Psychotherapy

Black and White Witchcraft: A Cultural Crossroads in Paris Inspires Therapeutic Innovation — Tamar Kaim, MA

Food for the Soul — Myrtle Heery, PhD, MFT

Psychotherapy in China — Hui Qi Tong, MD, PhD , Stephen F. Myler, PhD

Transforming the Wounds of Racism: An Autoethnographic Exploration and Implications for Psychotherapy — Saira Bains, MA

Supervision and Consultation

The Tao of Direction: Structure and Process in Clinical Supervision — Jay Reeve, PhD

Therapist Growth and Reflections

A Crash Course in Psychotherapy: Moving through Anxiety and Self-Doubt — Charlotte Dailey, MA

Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes — Herbert Rabin, PhD, ABPP

How To Be A Grownup Even Around Your Own Parents — Frank Pittman, MD

In Search of Self: My Therapy with Rogers, Satir, Bugental, Polster, Yalom, & Maslow — Deb Hammond, MA

Looking Out the Patient’s Window Redux: Self-disclosure and Genuineness — Irvin Yalom, MD

Lowering Fees in Hard Times: The Meaning Behind the Money — Melissa Groman, LCSW

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (excerpt) — Irvin Yalom, MD

The Empty Chair: Making Our Absence Less Traumatic for Everyone — Ann Steiner, PhD, MFT, CGP

The Therapist Mourns His Mother's Death: Being With Clients While Heartbroken — Bob Livingstone, LCSW