Emotional First Aid for Everyday Issues
Everyone knows that a twisted ankle requires elevation and a bag of frozen peas. Minor cuts and scrapes get bandages and Neosporin ointment. Colds get chicken soup, cough drops, and tissues. But what’s...
View ArticleReexamining How We Define Love
In the increasingly influential world of positive psychology, researchers have begun to wonder whether all the fascination with drama and intensity is obscuring a mundane truth about what really...
View ArticleThe Controversy of Brain Imaging and Psychotherapy
Today’s cutting-edge therapists take pride in their growing knowledge of brain science. For nearly 20 years, Daniel Amen has led a controversial quest to make brain imaging common practice in the...
View ArticleEasing Trauma’s Lingering Shock
For the past 30 years, Bessel van der Kolk has been instrumental in bringing the insights of neuroscience into our understanding of trauma. In fact, he was the first “establishment” psychiatrist to...
View ArticleApplying Attachment Theory in Schools
Pepperdine professor-psychotherapist Lou Cozolino believes that the key to improving our schools is learning how to incorporate an understanding of attachment theory and social neuroscience into our...
View ArticleTherapy: Ally to Memory Recollection?
In the late 1980s and 1990s, after the growing recognition that child abuse was far more prevalent than had been believed, an increasingly vocal adult survivors’ movement began to form, determined to...
View ArticleA Couples Therapy for the Modern Relationship
When it comes to couples, we still hold onto the romantic ideal of finding that one soulmate who’ll fulfill all our needs for companionship, emotional intimacy, and erotic adventure in a single...
View ArticleThe Power of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
We Americans believe profoundly not only in the pursuit of happiness, but in our unalienable right to obtain it. Despite roughly 5,000 years of written evidence to the contrary, we believe it isn’t...
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Navigating Modern Relationships with Attachment Science
Susan Johnson, the inventor of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), bases her work on the fundamental understanding that teaching communication skills to couples in conflict is like trying to...
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Helping Therapy Clients Learn Habits for Happiness
For her 2009 book, The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin spent a year test-driving dozens of techniques and notions that purport to make people happier. More recently, Rubin explored the nature of...
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Relishing the Challenge of Catastrophe to Promote Growth
Should we praise children, students, clients, and ourselves for being smart people who earn top marks? According to renowned motivation expert Carol Dweck, Stanford professor and bestselling author of...
View ArticleWhat Therapists Need to Know About Autism
When it comes to autism, how do we separate truth from fiction? Steve Silberman is a Bay Area writer who, for his Wired article “The Geek Syndrome,” dove into Silicon Valley culture in 2001 to explore...
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