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Addressing Challenging Moments in Psychotherapy: Clinical Wisdom for Working with Individuals, Groups and Couples

Author(s) : Jerome S. Gans

Reviews and Endorsements

"This book is the wonderfully rich distillation of 48 years of experience treating individuals, couples and groups in a variety of settings. Dr Gans shows his considerable wisdom and compassion throughout the variety of clinical examples. He covers a wide variety of therapeutic challenges ranging from threatened suicide to seemingly casual remarks. The book offers a compelling combination of thoughtful and sophisticated analysis with eminently clear writing and will help clinicians at all levels to reflect more deeply about each therapy session they conduct." - Eleanor F. Counselman, EdD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA, Distinguished Fellow and immediate past President, the American Group Psychotherapy Association.

"Dr. Gans writes with clarity and deep appreciation for the psychotherapeutic process. His book illuminates the ways in which effective therapists must use themselves expertly as therapeutic agents, fully integrating their knowledge, understanding, compassion and humanity. Throughout, he demonstrates how the values of therapist decency and deep care for our patients, interface with our theories and techniques. Gans writes with passion, wisdom, humor and abiding respect for his patients and their inspiring courage and resilience." - Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and President, the American Group Psychotherapy Association.

"It is a cause for celebration when a highly experienced, trusted clinician and teacher, such as Jerry Gans, delivers a work that is as fresh, original, stimulating, provocative and helpful as this book. It reflects a current wish for more creative and innovative ways of working and offers numerous valuable ideas for interacting with clients in unconventional but impactful ways, in individual, couple and group therapy. Paradox, irony and surprise abound. The author offers not just his own ideas but encourages readers to find their own voice as psychotherapists: free, spontaneous and playful." - Morris Nitsun, Training Analyst, the Institute of Group Analysis, London, and author of The Anti-Group and The Group as an Object of Desire.

"In his book, Dr. Gans weaves selected clinical pearls. Shame, marital discord, countertransferance and pain-Gans illuminates different aspects related to relationships. Skillfully and lovingly he leads us to the depth of the challenge inherent in the therapeutic encounter. With characteristic eloquence and sincerity, he captures the reader's heart as he shares interventions, explains rationale and shares powerful insights." - Sharon Sagi Berg, MA, Group Analyst, Psychotherapist, Director of Tel Aviv Schema Therapy Center.