Changes in the therapist

These sixteen essays examine issues surrounding therapeutic relationships and consider their effects on the beliefs, feelings, and actions of therapists. In them, clinicians describe their own reactions and the changes they've experienced as a result of contact with a particular patient. In so doing, they bring light to the subtle working of the therapeutic relationship. The editors' introduction constructs a systematic framework within which to think about the changes the authors recount. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Foreword / David Spiegel -- Introduction / Stephen Kahn and Erika Fromm -- I. Changes in attitude about death -- From and artist's palette / Marlene R. Eisen -- A matter of life and death: the case of Jan / Stephen Kahn -- Where angels fear to tread / Rita V. Rogan -- Hearing the unspoken: from hypnotherapist to comatherapist / Erika Wick -- II. Changes in ability to mourn parents -- Finding a fatherly self / David A. Soskis -- The Nike Boy and I / Linn LaClave -- III. Changes in perspectives of the self -- Pain: a story / Brenda Bursch and Lonnie Zeltzer -- Gently wiping her tears away / Phillis A. Alden -- Empathic interactive therapy: feeling a learning with the patient / Joan Murray-Jöbsis -- Death, bereavement, and the therapist / Judith W. Rhue -- The little engine that could / Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger -- IV. Changes in technique -- Myths in collision / Stanley Krippner -- Changing the use of hypnosis in my practice / Albert Ellis -- V. Chantes in tolerance for uncertainty -- Countertransference and the torture survivor / John R. Van Eenwyk -- Living with uncertainty / Karen Olness -- In harm's way: thoughts and reflections on an unwelcome struggle / Richard Pl. Kluft -- Abou…