A perilous calling : the hazards of psychotherapy practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sussman, Michael B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : J. Wiley & Sons, [1995]
Subjects:	Psychotherapists > Job stress. Psychotherapists > Mental health. Psychotherapy > personal narratives. Stress, Psychological > personal narratives. Countertransference (Psychology) > personal narratives. Psychotherapy

Table of Contents:

Intimations of mortality / Michael B. Sussman
Therapist in the combat zone / Edward Tick
Listening to your patients, yelling at your kids: the interface between psychotherapy and motherhood / Susan Scholfield MacNab
Geropsychology: how the venerable leave us vulnerable / Michele Steinberg and Michael J. Salamon
The therapist as patient in interminable treatment: a parallel process / Constance Seligman
The journey of the characterologic therapist / Norman F. Shub
On the pathologization of life: psychotherapist's disease / Edward W. L. Smith
Overcoming body shame: my client, myself / Judith Ruskay Rabinor
Making room for illness in the practice of psychotherapy / K. Tracy Munn
Public exposure of shame in the group leader / R. Tracy MacNab
Unexpected encounters: the Wizard of Oz exposed / Gina Arons, Ronald D. Siegel
AIDS: the therapist's journey / Michael Shernoff
Lifeline / Gloria Garfunkel
Cracks in the mirror: when a psychiatrist treats physicians and their families / Michael F. Myers
Psychotherapy with therapists: countertransference dilemmas / Nancy A. Bridges
The therapist as recipient of the patient's relentless entitlement / Martha Stark
The hazards of treating suicidal patients / David A. Jobes, John T. Maltsberger
"I didn't think I was speaking Chinese" / Donald L. Nathanson
A career plundered / John T. Maltsberger
The therapist a sdragonslayer: confronting industrialized mental health / Peter Gumpert, Susan Scholfield MacNab
The importance of risk management in a managed care environment / Eric A. Harris
Female therapists and the search for a new paradigm / Judith V. Jordan
Prevention: avoiding burnout / William N. Grosch, David C. Olsen
The spiritual self: its relevance in the development and daily life of the psychotherapist / Bryan Wittine
Sustaining the professional self: conversations with senior psychotherapists / Marc Berger.