Tag: therapy

On injury, compensation, and living with pain.

Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.

An entanglement with her shrink-stalking protege teaches Susan Shapiro something about forgiveness.

Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.

What do you do when it’s your first day on the job and the patient can’t stop crying?

Therapist Ursula Whitehead regularly texts her clients between sessions to help them understand that they are not alone.

The hip-hop artist sits down for a wide-ranging interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet.

We are finally taking sexual harassment and abuse seriously. Now what?

Merve Emre looks at the enduring visual power of Hermann Rorschach’s inkblots while reviewing Damion Searls’ new book on the German psychiatrist and his work.

Every means of confession creates a kind of person who confesses. You become who you are by saying what you did. The details make a difference. That pronoun, “I,” feels one way when you say it as part of a formula, in the dusk of a confessional, to a priest you cannot see behind the […]

We’re going all over the world: from improv classes, hospitals and living rooms in Belgium, New York City and Minnesota.

In the latest New York Times Magazine, Ron Suskind explores how his autistic son Owen found a voice through the lessons and sidekicks in Disney films. The story is an excerpt from the journalist’s new book, Life, Animated: Owen’s chosen affinity clearly opened a window to myth, fable and legend that Disney lifted and retooled, […]

Harville and Helen take turns talking and clicking through a PowerPoint that includes slides in both English and Spanish. Helen explains that half the people here tonight are the “draggers,” the other half are the “draggees,” and that it will actually be that second group that’s more excited by the end of the workshop. “See,” […]