More Than a Mirror: How Clients Influence Therapists' Lives

ISBN-13: 9781560232513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 156 str.

Marcia Hill

Opis

Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds therapy, More than a Mirror will show you the rarely discussed, "invisible" side of the therapeutic experience--how clients influence the person of the therapist. In this rare collection of vignettes and thoughtful explorations, over 20 therapists describe for you how particular clients, issues, and the practice of therapy in general impact them as people.

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Contents Forewarning

• My Heart Is Broken by a Five-Year-Old Who “Abandons” Me
• There but for the Grace of God: Two Black Women Therapists Explore Privilege
• Hope
• Bearing Witness to the Unspeakable
• Joining the Expedition: Journal of a Therapist-in-Training
• Lessons Learned: A Psychologist's Perspective on Psychotherapy
• The Effect of a Therapist's Pregnancy on a Therapeutic Relationship with an Inmate Charged with Infanticide
• Happy, Happy, Happy
• Death Work: One Psychotherapist's Journey
• Mystical Experience of a Counsellor: An Autobiographical Journey
• Exploring Intimacy in Therapy: Broadening the Interpretation of Arousal
• The Wish to Become a Mother
• Victims, Survivors, and Veterans: A Circle of Courage
• Border-Crossing on a Racist Terrain
• Merger and Unconditional Love as Transformative Experiences
• Female Therapist, Male Client: Challenging Beliefs--A Personal Journey
• Traumatic Therapy: How Helping Rape Victims Affects Me as a Therapist
• Frank Revelations of a Difficult Therapy Experience: Countertransference Observations
• Parallel Process: Client and Therapist Explore Motherloss
• Overcoming My Model of Goodness as a Psychotherapist: Setting Boundaries--The Case of Tina
• Mandatory Reporting and Professional Dilemmas: A Case Study
• Changes: The Personal Consequences of the Practice of Psychotherapy
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

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Marcia Hill