Therapy can help many people feel better — but it is not always successful. This depends on the patient-therapist ...

Therapy goes beyond the couch. By Garret Condon . Feb. 20, 2006 12 AM PT . ... 82% said they recommended self-help groups to their psychotherapy patients; 85% recommended self-help books.

Cartoons about the psychiatrist's couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum. A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy ...

Talk Therapy: Off the Couch and into the Lab. Researchers gather evidence that talk therapy works -- and keeps on working. By Raymond A. Levy & J. Stuart Ablon.

Psychotherapy has historically been an exercise of the mind, but in the offices of more and more modern-day mental-health providers, emotional healing is taking place not just on the couch but on ...

A person who is “on the couch” is known to be in therapy, but most therapists these days don’t ask their clients to lie down. The first time mine did, I resisted.

(CNN) — Therapy often gets a bad rap. In old movies, it’s often depicted with a patient lying on a couch, talking to a stony-faced, note-taking analyst who never speaks. Critics sometimes ...