--- title: Therapy Without the Therapist description: Therapy without the therapist, convincing Sunnis America cares, making nonprofits more effective and more. canonical: https://time.com/3931401/therapy-without-the-therapist/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-23T16:00:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:53.439Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Therapy Without the Therapist. og:description: These are the best ideas of the day. og:url: https://time.com/3931401/therapy-without-the-therapist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Therapy Without the Therapist. twitter:description: These are the best ideas of the day. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Therapy Without the Therapist by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 23, 2015 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 23, 2015 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The only thing missing from this surprisingly effective therapy is the therapist.**](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/depressed-try-therapy-without-the-therapist/) By Tina Rosenberg in the New York Times Fixes **2\.** [**America can’t beat ISIS until we convince Sunnis we care.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/17-isis-washington-show-sunnis-we-care-lister) By Charles Lister in Markaz by the Brookings Institution **3\.** [**This is the best way to make nonprofits and foundations way more effective.**](http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/6/22/free-the-990-why-searchable-tax-forms-are-way-more-important.html) By Tate Williams in Inside Philanthropy **4\.** [**If everything has a price, here’s the cost of saving the planet.**](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/putting-a-price-on-nature/) By Anna Lieb in Nova Next **5\.** [**Here’s how ‘drug courts’ let judges practice medicine without a license.**](http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/how-america-overdosed-on-drug-courts) By Maia Szalavitz in Pacific Standard  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3931401/therapy-without-the-therapist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3931401/therapy-without-the-therapist/"},"headline":"Therapy Without the Therapist","datePublished":"2015-06-23T16:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:53.439Z","description":"These are the best ideas of the day.","url":"https://time.com/3931401/therapy-without-the-therapist/","keywords":["Innovation","ISIS","Therapy","Sunni"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3931401/therapy-without-the-therapist/","name":"Therapy Without the Therapist"}}]}] ```