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Letter to the Mother of a “Schizophrenic”: We Must Do Better Than Forced Treatment

October 2, 2015 Will Hall 3

A few months ago I met your son. He said he would be waiting for us in the Berkeley park near where he sleeps outside at night, but at the last minute he called and […]

Food: The Sweetest Taboo

October 2, 2015 admin 1

“It sounds ridiculous, but I wait until everyone is either asleep or out and then I go down to the kitchen and I just eat. I eat until I feel sick. I don’t even know […]

False Heretics: Adolescent Attachment and Religious Rebellion

March 25, 2015 Amanda Gregory 2

“I’m a Satanist,” smirked the 14-year-old as she faced her devout Catholic mother during a family therapy session. I, the therapist, did my best not to smile. I had seen this coming. For the past […] […]

The New Childhood of the Non-Traditional Family

March 25, 2015 Stanley Siegel 3

Today’s American Family isn’t what it used to be. The days of “Leave It to Beaver” have been replaced with “Modern Family,” a more accurate representation of home life. The nuclear family, the blended family, […] […]

Exquisite Unions: The “Double Cross” Case

January 7, 2013 Stanley Siegel 2

[An excerpt from The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy by Psychology Tomorrow’s Editor-in-Chief Stanley Siegel] DOUBLE CROSS New York, January 1986 Andy Himmel and Phyllis Abrams had lived together for six years, […] […]

Achieving Failure: Holocaused

August 23, 2012 Stanley Siegel 4

[An excerpt from The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy by Psychology Tomorrow’s Editor-in-Chief Stanley Siegel] ACHIEVING FAILURE What could be more relative than the notions of success or failure? We read newspaper […] […]