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AMONG THE MANY tales of human frailty and grit that unfold in Close to Home, Bill Moyers's upcoming, five-part, PBS series on addiction (March 29-31), is a story that goes to the heart of many therapists' experience with the desperation of drug dependence....

MANY THERAPISTS TODAY have abandoned a reliance on the "Five Ds" (diagnosis, disease, dysfunction, disorder and deficit). They have stepped down from the throne of the exalted expert and learned to privilege the client's voice as the source of wisdom...

TWICE A MONTH, I make a ritual pilgrimage. Rising at dawn, I drive two blocks to the Amoco station, where a tiny Korean lady smiles and welcomes me from behind her bullet-proof window. Bowing ever so slightly, she tells me whether the coffee is vintage...

AN ERA'S CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has a remarkable ability to color perceptions, seducing people to linger over certain facts and to hurry past others. In the early 1960s, for instance, when the prevailing cultural belief was that nurture, not nature, was...

GENE-BEHAVIOR STORIES are constantly getting propelled to the front pages of newspapers. One popped up a few years ago. when a team of researchers reported that a single gene, called fru, determines the sexual behavior of male fruit flies. Courtship,...

ALTHOUGH FAMILY THERAPISTS tend to argue among themselves about differences in clinical theories and about practical issues in treatment, they have agreed about one thing the family matters. The cornerstone of the field has been the fundamental idea...

A FEW YEARS AGO, while then in his early sixties, Sam Keen decided to fulfill a childhood fantasy and begin training as a trapeze artist at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. As he went about trying to master knee hangs, planges, turnarounds and...