Editor's Note
Rich SimonUpside-Down Psychotherapy
Breaking the Rules with Our OCD ClientsIt’s now clear that much of what therapists do for people suffering from OCD actually worsens the problem. Providing empathic reassurance, rational... Read more
Learning to Manage the OCD Bully
A Therapeutic OdysseyAn OCD sufferer describes the frustrating stops and starts and misdirections of her circuitous search for help in escaping the maze of her family of origin and... Read more
OCD and Children
It’s a Family AffairOCD in children can operate like a kind of cult leader, demanding acceptance of an extreme view of a perilous reality and offering solutions that can’t be... Read more
Extra Feature
Life, Death, and a Good Cigar
Freud Chose to Face the End on His Own TermsFor most of us, death is a subject hovering in the shadows of our lives, willfully ignored until it’s suddenly standing rudely before us, the world’s worst... Read more