The Mental Health Crisis: Whose crisis is it?
Thomas Insel, M.D., former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in his most recent book, “Healing: Our path from mental illness to mental health” (1) argues that our…
What makes therapy work: Part II
The debate about what accounts for therapy’s benefit has raged within the field for decades. Back when this writer was in graduate school the debate tended to be between more…
Why does Therapy Work: Part I
It seems that the world in which we live is increasingly judgmental, factionalized, and distracted. Clearly, social media and technology interfere with people’s capacity to listen to each other in…
The Importance of Structure
When I was first introduced to family systems therapy in the 1980s one of the preeminent models was “Structural Family Therapy” which emphasized hierarchy and boundaries. The focus on hierarchy…
Putting our Problems in Perspective
When I was in graduate school one of my professors was a devotee of Albert Ellis, the originator of Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). For those not familiar with this model,…