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Try Talking to Your Parts

Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) was recently featured on NPR. "At the center of IFS...

10 Principles of Psychotherapy

From Psychology Today: “An important principle of psychotherapy is that each of us, no matter what...

Technology & Relating

Alone Together, the new book by social scientist Sherry Turkle explores the many ways that...

Being Annoyed

Annoying, by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman, is a new book about the science and...

Rick Moody on Transference

I recently came upon an article by author Rick Moody published a few years ago in the...

Use of Self to Help Others

Psychologist and psychotherapist Marsha Linehan, creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for people with borderline personality disorder,...

Thoughts on the First Session

from Thomas Ogden’s paper “Comments on Transference and Countertransference in the Initial Analytic Meeting”: “Everything...

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

When I heard of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s sudden death last week, I was shocked and saddened....

Mass Hysteria in NY

Freud’s Victorian hysterics have not disappeared. They’re right here–in this amazing story about mass psychogenic illness sweeping...

No More Neurotics?

The New York Times wonders, “Where Have All the Neurotics Gone?” Benedict Carey writes, “For a generation of postwar...

Are You My Mother?

I wrote a short review of Alison Bechdel’s new graphic memoir, Are You My Mother?, for...

Talk Benefits

“Numerous findings over the last two decades demonstrate how talk therapy alters the brain. Disabling...