In our two prior posts, we discussed the importance of understanding the pervasive nature of unconscious mental activity and the importance of understanding how past relationships influence the nature ...

In psychotherapeutic treatments, counter-reactions are inevitably evoked within the clinician. As with any other person, the clinician’s experience of the patient is colored by residues from the ...

I was married to my husband for 35 years when he left me for his therapist. My eldest daughter was so shocked and hurt by this that she called the woman at her work to ask her how she could do this to ...

When Sam Thomas was 15 years old, he learned the word “bulimia” by reading an advice column in the paper. The person who had written in seeking help was a single mother who binged and purged after her ...

She said I could tell her anything. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author of a memoir about her work as a therapist, offers readers advice on life’s tough questions ...