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Pakistan Could Use a Therapeutic Intervention
A Pakistani scholar of international relations has proposed a strategy for helping her country shift from a culture of violence to a culture of collaborative dialogue and cooperative conflict resolution. The program she proposes is remarkably similar to the work I do as a therapist with couples in conflict.
Need Help Coping With a Tough Marriage? A Painful Divorce?
Are coping with a tough marriage, or getting through a divorce, inevitably painful? Here's two factors that can alleviate much of the sting.
Needless Angers: Can They Be Eliminated?
Whether it's low-level irritation or high-intensity rage, speaking or acting in anger can poison relationships. Fortunately, this simple system can end needless anger.
No Way Jose Will I Go With You To Therapy!
There's many ways to get marriage help, with or without the participation of your spouse. Here's three options for fixing marriage problems on your own.
Not Getting Your Concerns Heard? Try These 5 Tools
Want to become more effective when someone you love, or someone you work with, keeps doing something that bugs you?
On Whom Can I Depend? How Relationships Support Well-Being
"If I should get sick, who would take care of me?" It's a good question—and one that could lead to positive life changes.
Options for the Unhappily Married
Country music group Pistol Annies poignantly sings about how marriage can become a trap. At the same time, the words suggest ways to open the trap and find routes to happiness,
Our COVID-19 Pandemic Strategy-Makers May Need a CBT Upgrade
Faulty thinking by decision-makers may be preventing better results in fighting the pandemic.
Overcoming BPD: 3 Vital Ways Parents of Teenagers Can Help
What can you do if one or more of your children, young or grown, shows the emotional hyper-reactivity and excessive anger that characterize borderline personality disorder?
Mending a Broken Family; Strengthening a Healthy Family
Families can be fountains of strength. At the same time, all families are fragile. Internal factors like a parent with mental health issues, and also outside factors like job loss or economic stresses, can overwhelm a couple's abilities to cope in good humor. One temporarily fractured couple has written profound advice relevant to all parents.