A Curious Calling: Unconscious Motivations for Practicing Psychotherapy - Couverture souple

Sussman, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0765705524 ISBN 13 : 9780765705525

Editeur : Jason Aronson, 2007

Synopsis

"What brings you here?" is the standard question posed to patients at the outset of their therapeutic journey. In A Curious Calling, this question is posed to therapists themselves. Applicants to psychotherapy training programs commonly state that they wish "to help people"-but this tells us very little. What are the unconscious factors underlying the decision to become a psychotherapist? Guilt, compassion, a sense of moral duty, a sense of power? Or a wish to be needed, or to enjoy vicariously the prospect of receiving aid and comfort? For each individual with a "need to help" there exists a unique constellation of underlying motives and aims. Without exploring and facing up to these hidden sources of motivation, therapists run the risk of exploiting patients for their own needs.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael B. Sussman, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Sussman has worked in private practice and as a clinical instructor at Harvard University. He is the editor of A Perilous Calling: The Hazards of Psychotherapy Practice and the author of a children's picture book, Otto Grows Down.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jason Aronson
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0765705524
• ISBN 13: 9780765705525
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible