An analysis of how therapist personal styles impact therapy outcome. Complementarity is discussed as a common sensical shifting of therapeutic approach that the intuitive clincian can effect deftly and naturally, not based on hidden prejudices or past experiences of the therapist, but on empirical understanding of an important kind of typology.

What happens when your therapist is grouchy? Research suggests that some client experience reduced anxiety when the therapist appears negative. This original study shows that the decrease in anxiety is likely reflective of a synergistic convergence between the patient's internal working model and the therapist's interpersonal behavior within the alliance.

Informed consent as a guiding principle lies close to the heart of modern professional ethics. As such, the doctrine of informed consent is based upon some of the most fundamental assumptions of fundamental human rights. Its history may be taken as an index of the development of modern attempts to codify and institutionalize basic human rights.

Recent theoretical and outcome research has indicated that group models have proven particularly useful for many persons with personality disorders, and that the group models may even be more effective than individual psychotherapy in their own right

Reviews the evidence for links between cognitive schema (over-learned patterns of perception and behavior) and neurology, including\parallels between hypothesized cognitive processes and observed neuropsychological processes and brain structures.

A summary of literature on the midlife crisis and its meaning. The male and female reaction of midlife crises are compared.

Review of the uses and properties of the MBTI, a very popular personality assessment based on Jung's personality theory.

The connections among attachment security, parental style, and child developmental outcome are explored.

An intimate relationship represents a grim threat to the fragile, a battlefield to the unequally matched, and a crucible for the mature. The intimate relationship at its best serves as a kind of workshop for the personality, since each relationship is essentially a work in progress.

There are many different styles of psychotherapy, based upon radically different models of mental health and mental illness. These different styles have their roots in various intellectual, social, academic, and spiritual sources. Most psychotherapists gravitate towards one or the other model, prompted by their own personal inclinations and training.

Anxiety is a restrictive, debilitating emotion. It has a psychological component and a physiological component. The psychological component is worried thoughts and catastrophizing. The physiological component is the physical symptoms of anxiety…sweaty palms, tightness in the chest, shallow breathing. This article reviews how to handle it.

A list of recommended books for every phase of life.