The Self-Disclosure Myth

A colleague of mine, Robin Mohilner, recently asked a support group she leads for people struggling with bipolar disorder their thoughts on having a therapist self-disclose and the prevalent myth in our field that “if people know your story and that you continue...

Our Borderline Profession

Our profession is borderline. Over 50 years ago, in an effort to aid the U.S. Army in creating a census of psychiatric ailments, symptoms that often appeared together were identified, labelled, and written down. And so the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

Letter to The Therapist

Dear Editors, We are deeply disconcerted by the recent trend of numerous articles in The Therapist claiming that the observed correlations between “Attachment Theory” and neurological phenomenon wholly or primarily explain the processes and origins of self-regulation....