Psychotherapy Networker back issues from January 2008:
Pathologizing for Dollars
Jan 01, 2008; ... Pathologizing for Dollars The rise of the ADHD diagnosis By Lawrence Diller In twenty-seven years as a behavioral pediatrician, I've asked more than 2,500 children, "Why are you here?" when evaluating them for learning or behavior problems. A majority of kids over six years old (I don't ...
From the Editor
Jan 01, 2008; ... From the Editor There's a reason that what we do is called "talk therapy." From the heyday of psychodynamic practice to the present, therapy has almost always consisted of a lot of talk. In the field's primordial past (the 1940s and '50s), the pace of the talk was slow and reflective--a ...
Family Matters, Run with It!
Jan 01, 2008; ... Family Matters By Lynn Grodzki Run with It! Redefining the comfort zone I'm in Andrew's car on a bright spring morning, on the way to the basketball court. "This is a good song for you to listen to, to get pumped for b-ball," he says and turns up the car radio, loud. It's a rap ...
A Quiet Revolution
Jan 01, 2008; ... A Quiet Revolution Therapists are learning a new way to be with their clients By Jerome Front It's only 9 a.m., but the coastal haze is already dissolving on this cold December morning in the Malibu hills. In the spacious room where I'm leading a retreat on relational mindfulness, ...
In Consultation, Mission Possible
Jan 01, 2008; ... IN CONSULTATION By Matthew Selekman Mission Possible The art of engaging tough teens Q: In my practice, my work with many teen clients becomes a standoff. How can I better engage them? A: Trying to get in the door with provocative, therapy-savvy adolescents can be a ...
Screening Room, Play It Again, Denzel
Jan 01, 2008; ... Screening RoomBy Frank Pittman Play It Again, DenzelKeeping alive the traditions of yesterday's stars When a new movie arrives, certainly much of what we experience is directly connected to what's on the screen--the unfolding of the story line and cavalcade of images and sound ....
Finding Daylight
Jan 01, 2008; ... Finding DaylightMindful Recovery from DepressionBy Zindel Segal Mindfulness isn't a skill that comes naturally. If you want to anchor your attention to what's happening in the present moment, you must actively engage your mind's natural tendency to fly all over the place. At the heart of ...
Contents
Jan 01, 2008 ... January/February 2008 Vol. 32 -- No. 1 SPECIAL FEATURE Mindfulness and the Art of Relationship A Quiet Revolution By Jerome Front If you're a therapist these days, it's hard to open a publication--or your mailbox--without hearing about mindfulness. Are the Eastern wisdom ...
Any Day Above Ground
Jan 01, 2008; ... Any Day Above Ground After recovery, what then? By David Treadway Each day, all summer, I'd set out in my nine-and-half-foot, lime-green tub of a boat called, incongruously, Typhoon. Once past the harbor breakwater, I was at sea. I steered my bow through the swells toward the endless ...
Bookmarks, Blinded by Science
Jan 01, 2008; ... Bookmarks By Richard Handler Blinded by Science Are there ways of knowing that we refuse to acknowledge? Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer Bantam Books. 302 pp. ISBN:0-553-80335-2 This book ...
The Soul of Relationship
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Soul of Relationship Where self and other meet By Molly Layton Even with two people sitting quietly, an interpersonal space isn't an empty space--it's alive with a peculiar quality. I got a measure of this quality one long day in a mindfulness-meditation retreat, when our instructor ...
Case Studies, Suddenly Strangers
Jan 01, 2008; ... CASE STUDIES By Don Ferguson Suddenly Strangers Iraq war vets, PTSD, and the challenge of relationship Recent studies suggest that more than a third of combat veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will require mental health treatment, with one in eight soldiers experiencing ...
Clinician's Digest
Jan 01, 2008; ... Clinician's Digest By Garry Cooper A Battle for the APA's Soul As the controversy has grown about waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques used with suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons around the world, the role of psychologists in ...