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A Mother and Daughter Reunion: It’s Never Too Late

It’s common for people to carry childhood wounds from their parents into adulthood. Sometimes they seek individual therapy for these painful issues. See what happens when the parent becomes part of the therapy.

How To Help A Self-Destructive Teenager

Teenage “cutting”: Teenagers are often seen in individual therapy for the self-mutilating behavior called “cutting.” Here’s a family therapy approach that stopped the cutting by revealing what was behind her apparent self-destructive behavior.

From The School of Life: An Instruction Manual To Oneself

We hope you enjoy this rather charming post from The School of Life. The author, Alain de Botton, illustrates how

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Caring Relationships Can Help Heal Pain

Check out this Op-Ed from The New York Times by Internal Medicine physician Danielle Ofri. She cites a recent Canadian study which shows that empathic, caring conversation from their physical therapists actually reduced the patients’ pain more than a medical procedure designed to treat their condition.