I have an article in the current issue of Psychotherapy Networker about working with a client who had been terrorized and immobilized by a doctor’s “death sentence” pronouncement about her health. My main outcome was to reduce her certainty about this, but I think the session also illustrates a number of other useful aspects of [...]

The last page and a half of my article Overcoming Overwhelm was accidentally omitted from the previous blog post. Here is the complete article; if you already read the previous post, scroll down to the heading “Prioritization” to read the part that was omitted.
Overcoming Overwhelm
All of us experience overwhelm at times. When there is too [...]

Recently I was exasperated by someone who didn’t keep what I thought was an agreement between us. But “Exasperation” doesn’t fully express the intensity of the confusion and disorientation I felt when that happened, so I decided to explore it using Andy Austin’s Metaphors of Movement process. Connirae and I have been having a great [...]

Milton Erickson — probably the greatest therapist who ever lived — described an interaction with a woman who had been in therapy with him for some time:
“This woman came in this morning, and she said, “I’ve got a very bad sinus. I know this is correct. My face is aching, and my face is hot. [...]

Book Review. The Better Angels of Our Nature: why violence has declined. Stephen Pinker (NY, Viking Press, 2011)
If you have ever despaired of humanity because of all the violence and injustice in the world, this book is a lovely breath of fresh air and optimism. However, despite its clarity and fascinating thoroughness and detail, it [...]