Description
Book SynopsisSlavney draws on his long experience as a psychotherapist and teacher of psychotherapy in a confidence-building book that is both practical and scholarly.
Trade ReviewWritten in an engaging, informal style, and is replete with the sorts of examples that can only come from an extended period of experience. -- Tony O'Brien Mental Health Net 2005 A helpful book and one that has a place as a first volume for residents beginning to practise psychotherapy. -- Laura Stovel Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2006 The writing style is easy and conversational... will appeal to students for its ability to address their fears and to instructors and supervisors, because it contains a number of conversations worth having with students of psychotherapy. -- Caroline Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. Psychiatric Services 2006
Table of ContentsForeword, by Jerome L. Kroll, M.D.
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Life-Story Reasoning
2. Personality: The Patient's and Yours
3. The Psychotherapeutic Relationship
4. Psychotherapy Supervision
Epilogue
References
Index
