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Family Therapy Pioneer Salvador Minuchin on the Therapist's Self

  • 29th May 2018
  • Salvador Minuchin

Reflections on a Life, Legacy, and Growing Older. A maverick and a visionary in the '60s and '70s, Salvador Minuchin transformed the very idea of what a therapist was supposed to be—a brash interventionist willing to make people change regardless of what they were feeling, or even knew they were feeling. Beyond that, he put forth a brand new model of psychotherapy—family therapy. In the following article, he reflects on his journey as a therapist and what clinicians need to do in order to master their craft.

The Addict in All of Us

  • 22nd May 2018

An Interview with Gabor Maté. Gabor Maté's TED talk on “The Power of Addiction and the Addiction of Power” has had almost 700,000 views. He insists that addictive patterns of behavior are rooted in alienation and emotional suffering. In the interview that follows, Maté explores the meaning of addictions.

What Writers and Therapists Have in Common

  • 15th May 2018
  • Mary Pipher

Rekindling Our Moral Imagination and Courage. Both good writing and effective therapy rely on the ability to move beyond the self to understand how the world looks and feels to another person. Here, an author and psychotherapist argues that this quality of "moral imagination" is crucial to our ability to face the enormous challenges that face us, not only in our consulting rooms, but in the wider world we share with one another.

Esther Perel’s Growing Cultural Presence

  • 7th May 2018

Expanding the conversation on couplehood. By questioning some of the fundamental premises of traditional marriage, couples therapist Esther Perel has become, at least for the moment, psychotherapy’s public face and most quotable voice. But what is she saying that’s so intriguing and makes her stand out from all the other relationship experts our field produces?