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Inside Therapy: Illuminating Writings About Therapists, Patients, and Psychotherapy
A scintillating collection of writings on the mysterious, controversial, and intimate process of psychotherapy.
Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al-will find this lively anthology an engrossing read. A varied mix of essays, book chapters, case histories, and compelling fiction written by veterans of both sides of "the couch" and representing many schools of thought, Inside Therapy includes: Janet Malcolm's The Impossible Profession * Mark Epstein's Thoughts Without a Thinker * Eric Fromm's The Art of Listening * A. M. Homes's In a Country of Mothers * Theodore Reik's The Third Ear * and others. The foreword by Irvin D. Yalom, author of Love's Executioner, offers additional wisdom, humor, and perspective.
At a time when managed care threatens the psychoanalytic tradition, this dramatic, inspiring collection reminds us of the healing power of insight and the unique gifts of the patient-therapist relationship.
Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al-will find this lively anthology an engrossing read. A varied mix of essays, book chapters, case histories, and compelling fiction written by veterans of both sides of "the couch" and representing many schools of thought, Inside Therapy includes: Janet Malcolm's The Impossible Profession * Mark Epstein's Thoughts Without a Thinker * Eric Fromm's The Art of Listening * A. M. Homes's In a Country of Mothers * Theodore Reik's The Third Ear * and others. The foreword by Irvin D. Yalom, author of Love's Executioner, offers additional wisdom, humor, and perspective.
At a time when managed care threatens the psychoanalytic tradition, this dramatic, inspiring collection reminds us of the healing power of insight and the unique gifts of the patient-therapist relationship.
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 24, 2000
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February 21, 2012
Convincing reason to stay far, far away from psychoanalysis and the wounded-but-in-denial psychoanalysts; it truly seems mind-blowing how therapy with an emotionally detached therapist could ever be seen as a means for clients to recover from traumatic childhoods with similarly emotionally unresponsive figure.
November 12, 2014
the premise of the book was really good, but I quickly realized I had no interest after a chapter where a psychoanalyst talks about how he "treated" a client by not talking to or responding to her for months. not my style.
June 8, 2007
annoying simply because it is all about psychoanalysis, mostly, which is slightly odd, because psychoanalysis is on such a decline, and also because yalom himself doesn't ascribe to the theory, but. still one of the better books on how therapy is done from the perspective of a patient and a therapist out there.
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