Contributed by Garry Cooper
Therapists’ Perspectives on the Woody Allen Allegations Read more
Psychotherapy vs. Placebos
Frontline PsychotherapyGarry Cooper and Kathleen Smith Read more
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the “bible” of mental health, originally was intended... Read more
A Brief History of Psychotherapy
A Mosaic of the Psychotherapy Networker, 1982-2012Over the years, our front-of-the-book department has not only given readers plenty of tasty factoids to chew on, but also revealed how the seasons of the... Read more
- Chilean miners' long-term trauma - Training good therapists - The question of bullying Read more
The Tribe Gathers
Symposium 2010 Starts a New Kind of ConversationIt may seem strange to think of 3,000 people getting together in the lap of hotel luxury as a "primitive tribal gathering," but the Networker Symposium... Read more
Listening to your inner therapist * Can we admit that therapy is sometimes harmful? * Botox's interference with emotions * The fearlessness--criminality link ... Read more
He’s back in Iraq, on foot patrol, nervously walking down a street that suggests Basra, when it happens again—an explosion right across the street. The... Read more
Therapist Jane Cibel really makes her clients sweat. After a brief check-in, during which they report how their lives and therapy homework have gone in the... Read more
Stanley Milgram’s classic experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people would—with encouragement from authority figures—give escalating... Read more
Turning Over the Reins
A father learns when to sit silentAs they grow old, there's just no protecting our children from the bad news in life. Read more
Controversy at APA * Motivating the Depressed Client * Educational Videos for Babies Flunk * Different Alcoholics, Different Treatments * Does Therapy Breed... Read more
* Is Therapy Harmful? * The Unintended Consequences of Black-Labeling Antidepressants * A Depression Vaccine * Unexpected Resilience Among Adolescents ... Read more
Stepping into the Moment - Really!
The 2007 Symposium theme comes aliveKeynote presenters and attendees all step into the present at the 2007 Networker Symposium. Read more
They set up on either side of the patient's bed and reassure the unconscious patient and his relatives that they don't have to do anything. [Margaret Pasquesi... Read more
A River Runs Through It
When a community tries its best and fails, then what?From the July/August 1997 issue People in North Dakota insist that the land is so flat, they can spot an anthill a half mile away. Local lore says that... Read more
New Science for Psychotherapy
Can we predict how therapy will progress?Psychologists Robert-Jay Green and Paul D. Werner of the California School of Professional Psychology insist that family therapists who don't rethink their... Read more
From the September/October 1994 IN THE PHOTOGRAPH OF MY maternal grandfather, Louie, that I remember most clearly, he is around 50, his bald head and... Read more
Garry Cooper
Garry Cooper, LCSW, is a therapist in Oak Park, Illinois.