By combining a 12-step program with psychotherapy, one is able to reap a better benefit from both.

By Courtney Dietler

And Why the 25-year Anniversary is Fundamentally Important

By AJ Rich

The process of therapy can and should improve the links, and appreciation, between our internal unconscious mind and our external perceptions and lived reality.

By Scott Turner

How do we lose our loss?

By Benjamin Safford

To play with paradox is to penetrate the wild unconscious.    

By Lauren Traitz

Metaphors help guide us to deeper meanings.

By Camille Mica

We all have narcissistic defenses, or narcissistic states. It’s a misconception that narcissism means self-involvement, or self-obsession, to a degree that excludes all others.

By Alex Lewin

As an adult, having one’s needs met without voicing them feels profoundly reassuring because it reflects our deepest yearnings from infancy.

By Jessica Sardas

There is often confusion about what exactly therapy is and how it can help. If you are already in a 12-step program here are four ways therapy can enhance your recovery.

By Michael Pezzullo

At the initial session with a couple, almost invariably, one of the partners says that the reason they are coming in for treatment is that there is a problem with their communication. Yet couples are communicating all of the time and often what they are communicating is being transmitted in what is not said. The communication starts unconsciously and at the very beginning.

By Marcella Haro