Each chapter in this book focuses on one or more performances that clinical practitioners must achieve with some regularity. It explores ways - communication and literary theory, ethnography, and discourse analysis - to express what practitioners do in clinics and hospitals.
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…
""Personal struggles with crises or with certain aspects of identity sometimes enhance, sometimes limit, but always affect our clinical work." So notes editor Barbara Gerson in introducing this collection of powerfully illuminating and often poignant essays in which contributors…
"Primary care and psychotherapy are in some ways worlds apart. Yet both deal with the same human fundamentals: birth, and death, hope and disappointment, identity and uncertainty. This innovative book looks at how psychotherapists can make use of their skills in primary care. It…
Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous pract…
This book offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. The authors interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss their mistakes, misjudgements, and miscalc…
This collection of interviews examines crucial issues of uncertainty which leading British and American therapists have encountered during the course of their work. With a new chapter by Tim Bond, this revised edition of Therapists' Dilemmas fills an important gap in the psychot…