PolyProfessionals: Finding Polyamorous Assistance
Why would people need a professional who is knowledgeable about polyamory, and where would seekers find such an expert?
View ArticleIs it OK to Dig Into Your Therapist's History?
Are you breaking a therapy rule if you do? Is it in your best interest? There are potential harms and benefits, depending on the details.
View ArticleWriting About the Talking Cure
The Psychology Today blogs are 10 years old this year, and so is In Therapy. Today I'm sharing a few lessons I've learned along the way.
View ArticleSign on to Telepsychotherapy
Are you comfortable enough with online social relations to consider doing psychotherapy online?
View ArticleTest Yourself With a Real Case of Addiction
Think you know addiction? I hope so. Here's a clinical test to help.
View ArticlePsychoanalysis Today
The popular media perpetuates a distorted and caricatured image of psychoanalysis
View ArticleAnimal Assisted Play Therapy: An Integrative Approach
An interview with Risë VanFleet and Tracie Faa-Thompson about their book "Animal Assisted Play Therapy" which adds lightness and the animals' well-being to the therapeutic process.
View ArticleRecovery From Mental Illness Isn't Always Linear
"So what's it like now you're better?" Dealing with questions about recovery from mental illness.
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know When Clients Dissociate — Part 2
How to identify and overcome the symptoms that lead to "zoning out."
View ArticleCarl Rogers'"Techniques" for Daily Life
The true and time-tested approaches to living a better life
View ArticleVoice Therapy
A five-step cognitive/affective/behavioral approach to challenging the destructive inner voice.
View ArticleDoes Hearing Voices Mean I'm Going Crazy?
Hallucinations are far more common than most people think. A little understanding goes a long way towards reducing stigma.
View ArticleFinding Mindfulness in Japanese Psychology, Part 2
I suggest Naikan for anyone who needs a bit more structure in their “meditation” because their mind tends to wander off. All you need to do is to follow three questions.
View ArticleTrump and the Oedipal Complex
Equating feelings and actions makes some feelings so frightening that we have to repress or deny them, or split them off and act them out in some displaced fashion.
View ArticleShould Gay Men Start Therapy?
Natti Vogel gives you some real thoughts and feelings about therapy, therapists, and gay men
View ArticleHow to Think About ADHD
The more sedentary our society becomes, the more likely that any difficulties with sitting still will be a disorder.
View ArticleAm I Being Sexually Harassed?
Are you being sexually harassed? Follow these steps to help you deal with what's going on.
View ArticlePreventing Evil Deeds: Who Perpetrates Mass Shootings?
Is there still a standard psychological profile of mass shooters? Or might it be changing?
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