From the Book of Life – www.thebookoflife.org What Is Therapy For? In almost all countries and communities around the world, there is one central (usually unvoiced) suspicion that arises whenever someone lets slip that they are ‘having therapy’: they are crazy....
Couch is a series about psychotherapy. “I’m meeting my boss later,” my patient said. “I’m worried she’s going to tell me I’m not pulling my weight, and that I should volunteer to work more hours to show my commitment.” This tension had been building at her job...
From the Gaurdian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars-revenge-of-freud-cognitive-behavioural-therapy David Pollens is a psychoanalyst who sees his patients in a modest ground-floor office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a...
This article, written by Laura Holson, was published in the New York Times on April 17, 2015 Over breakfast at Cafe Mogador in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ilan Zechory couldn’t stop talking about the complicated relationship with his best friend, Tom Lehman. Mr. Zechory...
The ‘Rules’ of Psychotherapy by Robin Weiss published in the New York Times on November 22, 2014 When Julia first appeared in my office, she was approaching her 35th birthday. She had resolved it would be her last. A hard-working surgeon at a nearby...