How to Be Your Own Therapist : A Step-by-Step Guide to Taking Back Your Life

by Patricia Farrell

Self-help tools that work with--or without--the aid of a therapist How to Be Your Own Therapist provides tools for those who want to replace unhealthy behaviors with actions that bring satisfaction and success. Drawing from her 20 years as a licensed therapist, Dr. Patricia Farrell has developed an approach that enables individuals to manage their own lives by reclaiming the personal power to take action. With intelligence and insight, Dr. Farrell shares the innovative techniques and exercises that promote successful results in her own patients--patients whom Farrell quickly enables to move into independent problem-solving action. Also included here are dozens of proven self-assessment tests, compelling case studies, and helpful symptom-identification sidebars. Her "power tools" include how

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Mental Health, Nonfiction

270 pages, Hardcover

First published September 17, 2002

Reviews

[M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally --a professional in the field basically has agreed with my beliefs that psychologists need help themselves, and they carry their own pre-judgments. Unfortunately.. Great book.

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book's amazing. The first two chapters were a little long (regarding why self-therapy works) but the rest was extremely helpful.

[ja.wojcik · Rating 3 out of 5]

to be used during therapy, in other cases I would not recommend it, although it gives you some tools to start working on yourself

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

poorly written. this book repeats itself far too much, and is written with the intention of mass consumption, often at the expense of saying anything meaningful. most of the book is an introduction to the point, which can be found better in other self-help books anyway, like the Dance of Anger, or Boundaries.

[Nichole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't knock it til you've tried it!