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Learning to Think for Ourselves

January 7, 2013 Alyssa Siegel 13

Many clients come to counseling expecting therapists to give them the answer – to tell them what to do about a particular problem or symptom. They also often want to know what’s “normal.” At the […] […]

Myopia Road: Reflections on Painting and Therapy

November 5, 2012 Anonymous 2

Growing up on a road named Myopia always seemed fitting for my family since a myopic vision involves being able to see objects when things are close by, but having difficulty in seeing when objects […] […]

A Son’s Vows to Love, Honor, and Obey Go Awry

August 20, 2012 Susan Slotnick 5

My brother’s troubles began with my parent’s marriage. They knew each other for only one week when they married. Mother told me that she only agreed because she was twenty-five, an old maid. Dad was […] […]

Sex Worker or Therapist?

June 11, 2012 Stanley Siegel 23

The Shared Values and Techniques of Therapists  and Sex Workers. […]

A Psychoanalyst’s Journal: A Theater of Objects

June 11, 2012 James Carnelia 2

I have kept a journal for the past forty years – forty-one, actually, but there is a year between the first two entries. I was twenty-four when I started and I am about to turn […] […]

Exquisite Unions: The Immaculate Misconception

June 11, 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] EXQUISITE UNIONS True love may be just exactly as our most saccharine, violin-accompanied, Disney-animated fantasies envision it; […] […]

The Dance of Therapy: Duets

June 11, 2012 Alyssa Siegel 14

ATTACHMENT When Mitchell first came to see me, I knew from his self-description that he struggled with depression and anxiety. A small, thin, dark- haired man of 30, who appeared in every way much younger […] […]

From Sexual Abuse to Sexual Fulfillment

June 11, 2012 Anonymous 6

A Patient Tells His Story […]