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The Hidden Language of Healing: 10 Things Every Great Therapist Knows

The Hidden Language of Healing: 10 Things Every Great Therapist Knows

A primer on what's left unsaid

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand

The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand

The cognitive pull of the unsolvable

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The intrusive and inescapable high that isn't love, at all.

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Albert Bandura on Self-Efficacy: The Science of Confidence and the Belief in One’s Potential

Albert Bandura on Self-Efficacy: The Science of Confidence and the Belief in One’s Potential

Why Confidence is a Practice, Not a Trait

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Science of Connection: What Four Decades of Attachment Research Reveals About Our Deepest Human Bonds

The Science of Connection: What Four Decades of Attachment Research Reveals About Our Deepest Human Bonds

Understanding the Invisible Architecture of Human Attachment

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Art as Liberation: How a Viennese Psychiatric Institute Became a Sanctuary for Creativity

Art as Liberation: How a Viennese Psychiatric Institute Became a Sanctuary for Creativity

How The House of Artists at Gugging Became a Model for Psychiatric Reform

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Loneliness Cure: Dr. Ruth’s Practical Wisdom for Connection

The Loneliness Cure: Dr. Ruth’s Practical Wisdom for Connection

The Secret of Connection from New York’s Loneliness Ambassador

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

The Story of Brainspotting: David Grand’s Unexpected Discovery

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Philippe Petit, Fears of Children and Freud's Home Movies

Philippe Petit, Fears of Children and Freud's Home Movies

Dispatches From the Past

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
One Year Without Therapy

One Year Without Therapy

How it's going

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
7 Misbeliefs About What it Means to Be An Adult

7 Misbeliefs About What it Means to Be An Adult

Freeing Yourself from the Myths of Being a Grown Up.

Amanda Stern
Tamar Chansky
Amanda Stern, +1