Psychotherapy Networker back issues from July 2008:
Case Studies, Eros and Aging
Jul 01, 2008; ... Case Studies Eros and Aging Is good enough sex right for you? By Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy Some 20 or 30 years ago, it was assumed that 90 percent of erectile problems were caused by psychological or relational factors. But since our culture tends to veer wildly from one ...
Clinician's digest
Jul 01, 2008; ... Clinician's digest By Garry Cooper Therapy and Global Warming British psychologist Mary-Jayne Rust couldn't get anywhere with her 30-something client, who spent her leisure time with her partner drinking and taking drugs. This wasn't a problem, her client insisted--all their ...
From the Editor
Jul 01, 2008; ... From the Editor When I entered graduate school in something called the "Community/Clinical Psychology" program at the University of Maryland 36 years ago, I didn't know what I was getting into. I certainly hadn't been particularly drawn to community mental health--in fact, I wasn't ...
Family Matters,Turning Over the Reins
Jul 01, 2008; ... Family Matters Turning Over the Reins A father learns when to sit silent By Garry Cooper Almost 10 years ago, working on an article for the Psychotherapy Networker, I called up therapist Doug Mann, who used horses as cotherapists in his work with troubled adolescents and their ...
In consultation,The Economics of Romance
Jul 01, 2008; ... IN CONSULTATION By Olivia Mellan The Economics of Romance Pre-nups and other dirty words Q: A male client of mine who was burned by an ugly divorce is getting married again and wants a prenuptial agreement. His fiancZe is angered by his request. How can I help them work it ...
Getting It Right
Jul 01, 2008; ... Getting It Right In HBO's In Treatment, Art Imitates Therapy By Molly Layton I was into the sixth week, at five shows a week, of watching In Treatment, the HBO fictional series about a psychotherapist in the Washington, D.C., area, when one Monday morning in my own office I found ...
Dear Michael
Jul 01, 2008; ... Dear Michael Michael White taught us how to retell our life stories By Stephen Madigan You're the one who trained me to write letters to clients to underline what you called their "know-how's"--their usually taken-for-granted ability to survive all manner of abuse, ridicule, and ...
Screening Room, No Country for Old Men
Jul 01, 2008; ... Screening Room No Country for Old Men Indiana Jones and the Temple of Youth By Frank Pittman Part of the magic of Hollywood movies is that the larger-than-life heroes and heroines up there on the screen don't age and wither and deteriorate like the rest of us do. In ...
Beyond the One-Way Mirror
Jul 01, 2008; ... Beyond the One-Way Mirror A New Approach to Reviving Public Sector Psychotherapy By Scott Sells with Cynthia Franklin It was my first meeting as a visiting supervisor at a local community mental health center in the Southeast. To get some background, I asked the clinical staff what had ...
Life, Death, Madness
Jul 01, 2008; ... Life, Death, Madness Confronting the raw reality of the emergency department By Gary Weinstein My pager is a tiny sound-knife, slicing into my sleep. I sit upright, disoriented. What? What! It's Sunday, 2:30 a.m., and I'm the clinical social worker on call for our upstate New York public ...
Bookmarks, Rethinking the Imperatives of Gender
Jul 01, 2008; ... Bookmarks Rethinking the Imperatives of Gender Has society become toxic to both genders? By Richard Handler The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap Susan Pinker Scribner's. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-743-28470-7 Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing ...
Contents
Jul 01, 2008 ... July/August 2008 Vol. 32 - No. 4 In the Trenches of Community Mental Health SPECIAL FEATURE Rolling the Rock By David Dan Beset by chronic budgetary constraints, invasive regulations, and insufficient respect from society at large, community mental health today seems a ...