Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal : What's Love Got To Do With It?.

Why do you practice psychotherapy? In this exciting volume, some of the field's leading therapists tell true stories which evoke the pleasures, joys, and satisfactions that inspire passion for therapeutic work. Rather than focusing on the stresses and strains of being a clinician, these dramati...

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Main Author: Hoyt, Michael F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • THERAPIST STORIES OF INSPIRATION, PASSION, AND RENEWAL What's Love Got To Do With It?; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Editor and Contributors; 1 The Joy of Therapy: Editor's Invitation and Preview; 2 What is Really Important in Life?; 3 Helping Clients Heal Broken Hearts; 4 Not Quitting My Day Job: How Being a Therapist Heals Me; 5 Turning the Mind into an Ally; 6 Duende: Evocation, Quest, and Soul; 7 Psychotherapy's Soothsayer; 8 It Warms My Heart; 9 Love's Got Everything To Do With It!; 10 Off the Couch and Outside the Box; 11 Life is with People
  • 12 On Being Black in White Places: A Therapist's Journey from Margin to Center13 Up the Hurry Stairs; 14 Road Trip; 15 Blue on Blue: A Love Story; 16 Exhilarating Couple Therapy: Singing to My Soul-Holding Steady to My Science-Filling Up My Heart; 17 The Bodhisattva: Tending the World; 18 Herman's Wager; 19 Love is a Four-Letter Word in Therapy; 20 The Journey of a Lifetime: Or, the Adventures of Being a Therapist; 21 At My Mother's Kitchen Table: Who Are We, But the Stories We Tell?; 22 The Poetics of Practice: Becoming "Well Versed" in Loss and Grief; 23 Natural Compassion
  • 24 The Tao of a Woman25 Creating Paths with Heart; 26 Get Off Your High Horse: Refl ections of a Problem Solver in Palo Alto; 27 Finding Humanity in Darkness; 28 In Search of the Spirit: A Therapist's Journey; 29 Conscious Purpose and Commitment Exercise; 30 Themes and Lessons: The Invitation Revisited