Tales from Family Therapy : Life-Changing Clinical Experiences

ISBN-13: 9780789000651 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 332 str.

Frank N. Thomas; Thorana S. Nelson

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In 53 accounts, therapists of diverse credentials, schools, and countries disclose experiential lessons centered on listening to clients more than theories gleaned in the areas of: therapy with families, couples, and children; difficult cases; therapy with medical issues, death, and dying; collaboration with clients; developing the self of the ther

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Contents About the Editors

• Contributors
• Series Editor’s Comments
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Therapy with Families
• Courting the Unknown in a Cross-Cultural Context
• A Game of Snakes-and-Ladders
• From Not Knowing, to Knowing, to Not Knowing, to Shared Knowing
• Interesting Moments in Psychotherapy
• Hysterical or Historical?
• Clients Do the Craziest Things. . . Like Prove Therapists Wrong
• “I’m Exercising as Fast as I Can!” Driving Missy Crazy
• The Lesson of Courage
• Act III: A Continuing Story
• Therapy with Difficult Cases
• Understanding the Sandwich Man
• Voices of Wisdom: The Reality of Delusions and the Usefulness of Hallucinations
• A Bitter Pill
• The Extra Mile: Therapy in a Truck Stop
• The Jockey Who Couldn’t Frown
• How Caron Kept Her Feet Moving
• Developing the Self of the Therapist
• Coloring Within the Lines: The Tale of a Buddhist, Lesbian Family Therapy Professor
• The Kaleidoscope of a Retiree
• Index

O autorze

Thorana S Nelson, Terry S Trepper, Frank N Thomas