Couples Therapy
Anyone who has ever been in a long term relationship will tell you that it weathered some very rough times, even moments rife with uncertainty about its viability. More than any other reason, people come […]
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How Social Media Affects Our Relationships
We are still, as a culture, relative infants when it comes to our use of technology and our understanding of its long-term impacts. There is no doubt that the widespread availability and use of technology […]
Lena A. Derhally – Why All Couples Could Benefit from (Good) Couples Therapy
During my training in Imago Relationship Therapy, one phrase has always stuck with me: “No one teaches us how to be in relationships.” If we have parents with a good marriage, modeling can be a […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Making Sex Positive Choices
[What We Can Do When Sex Leaves a Relationship | Part One: Rediscovering Sexual Compatibility | Part Two: Alternatives to Monogamy] Part Three: Crossing Conventional Boundaries Most of us, gay and straight alike, feel that having a […]
Ada Rios-Rivera, PhD – When “Your Place or Mine?” Becomes “Your Fault Not Mine!”
When it comes to relationships we are a culture of people that loves or hates. That’s it. Those are our choices. There’s no murky middle ground where we sift the silt for hidden options, new […]
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana – Of the Embrace
FROM THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA. TRANSLATED FROM THE SANSCRIT. This part of the Kama Shastra, which treats of sexual union, is also called “Sixty-four” (Chatushshashti). Some old authors say that it is called so, because it contains […]
Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD – Meaningful Expression (Even When It’s Not Consciously Intended)
On my way to the station in London I pass a young, homeless man. I don’t know his exact age though he looks like someone who is in his twenties. He sits up against the brick […]
Stanley Siegel, LSCW – Alternatives to Monogamy
[What We Can Do When Sex Leaves a Relationship | Part One: Rediscovering Sexual Compatibility] Learning boundaries with an open relationship Part Two: Creating an Open Relationship The process of learning Intelligent Lust is not about […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – What We Can Do When Sex Leaves a Relationship
What looks like the end can be the beginning PART ONE: Rediscovering Sexual Compatibility Sometimes when following the steps of Intelligent Lust, a couple discovers they are not sexually compatible. The differences in their true […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Achieving Failure: “The Patient Who Cured His Therapist”
[An excerpt from The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy by Psychology Tomorrow’s Editor-in-Chief Stanley Siegel] THE PATIENT WHO CURED HIS THERAPIST Starting with the premise that failures often are quite functional, we […]