ABSTRACT: Russia’s large-scale deportation, torture, and forced assimilation of Ukrainian children is one of the starkest violations of modern international law and child-rights norms, and its gravity ...

Layers of education, professional training, and social convention run through the therapist-client bond, but it’s still ultimately a human relationship. It’s impossible for either person to fully ...

Transference is when someone redirects their feelings about one person onto someone else. During a therapy session, it usually refers to a person transferring their feelings about someone else onto ...

She said I could tell her anything. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author of a memoir about her work as a therapist, offers readers advice on life’s tough questions ...

In psychotherapeutic treatments, counter-reactions are inevitably evoked within the clinician. As with any other person, the clinician’s experience of the patient is colored by residues from the ...

I was married to my husband for 35 years when he left me for his therapist. My eldest daughter was so shocked and hurt by this that she called the woman at her work to ask her how she could do this to ...

In a recent essay entitled “Are You My Mother?” Merve Emre, a frequent New Yorker contributor and a professor of creative writing and criticism at Wesleyan University, argues that it’s impossible to ...

At the center of “The Life of the Mind” (2021), Christine Smallwood’s comic novel about the vagaries of contemporary academia, are two scenes designed to mirror each other. In the first, the ...