Jeffrey Frank, LCSW

03/01/2026

Maroda shifts our focus from what the therapist does to who the therapist is. My other takeaways here: https://www.jfranktherapy.com/therapy-blog/for-therapists-the-analysts-vulnerability-by-karen-j-maroda

28/12/2025

https://www.karenmaroda.com/blog/emotional-pain-and-the-unique-approach-of-psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis has long been unique in its approach to people’s emotional pain.  Rather than emphasizing positive thinking and recommending medications to dull even moderate levels of anxiety and depression, psychoanalysis aims at unearthing the deepest pain and learning to accept and manag

01/10/2025

What is Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP)?

15/09/2025

"To bring these feelings and dynamics into consciousness is what it means to me to swim in deeper waters; to live more truly, with more weight and more propulsion, with a particular kind of energy, building a life that is truly meaningful."

We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallows

22/08/2025

"Coping With Uncertainty"
Written five years ago. Bears repeating...

Coping With Uncertainty

23/06/2025

“The key to healthy aging is relationships, relationships, relationships.”
George Vaillant, psychiatrist

For nearly 80 years, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has been producing data and lessons on how to live longer, happier, and healthier lives.

30/03/2025

"Statistics could indicate that ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections, sadness, and social anxiety are being subsumed into the category of medical disorder. In other words: we are not getting sicker – we are attributing more to sickness."

Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that

15/12/2024

https://www.jfranktherapy.com/video
“Life imitates art [and dynamic experiential therapy!] far more than art imitates life” - Oscar Wilde

05/12/2024

Now offering individual sessions!
“UNLOCKING YOUR RIGHT BRAIN". An experiential learning opportunity for therapists.

An experiential learning opportunity for therapists.

01/10/2024

What an honor to be presenting with such esteemed colleagues at the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association next month in San Diego!
https://iedta2024.com/program/

17/08/2024

"Decision makers need emotions to take risks and venture forth."

We now understand that our emotions are often wise. The problem is that our culture and our institutions haven’t caught up with our knowledge.

08/06/2024

Neutrality is necessary to prevent therapy from becoming corrupt: telling patients how to live and what to do.

Being neutral can lead to disengagement, but neutrality is necessary for a relationship based on exploring the patient’s inner world. A warm and engaged neutrality is the solution.