What do you do when it’s your first day on the job and the patient can’t stop crying?
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How Simple Human Connection Can Help Save People from Suicide
Therapist Ursula Whitehead regularly texts her clients between sessions to help them understand that they are not alone.
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Jay-Z Opens Up About Race in America, Therapy, and ‘4:44’
The hip-hop artist sits down for a wide-ranging interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet.
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Where Do We Go From Here?
We are finally taking sexual harassment and abuse seriously. Now what?
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Rorschach’s Inkblots Are Part of Art History
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.
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The Eye of the Beholder
Rorschach tests may have fallen out of favor among psychologists, but maybe their real value is as pieces of art?
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‘Every Means of Confession Creates a Kind of Person Who Confesses’
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 […]
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Session In Progress: Five Stories About Therapy
We’re going all over the world: from improv classes, hospitals and living rooms in Belgium, New York City and Minnesota.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Session In Progress: Five Stories About Therapy
We’re going all over the world: from improv classes, hospitals and living rooms in Belgium, New York City and Minnesota.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How an Autistic Child Found an Important Connection with Disney Films
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, […]