The Client Who Changed Me: Stories of Therapist Personal Transformation
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2005
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 232
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 22806
- ISBN 13 : 9780415951081
- ISBN 10 : 0415951089
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Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and counter-transference. However, while these professional hazards are very real, the scholarly focus on the negative potential of the client-counselor relationship often implies that no good can come of allowing oneself to get too close to a client's issues. This sentiment obscures what every therapist knows to be true: that the client-counselor relationship can also effect powerful positive transformations in a therapist's own life.
The Client Who Changed Me is Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson's testimony to the significant and often life-changing ways in which therapists have been changed by their patients. Kottler and Carlson draw not only upon their own extensive experience-between them - they have more than fifty years in the field - but also upon lengthy interviews with dozens of the country's foremost therapists and theorists. This novel work will present readers with a truly unique perspective on the business of therapy: not merely how it appears externally, but how practitioners experience it internally. Although these stories paint a complex and multi-layered portrait of the client-counselor relationship, they all demonstrate the profound and unexpected rewards that the profession has to offer.
About the Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Kottler is professor, Department of Counseling, California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or co-author of more than eighty books. He is also head of the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which provides scholarships for at-risk girls in Nepal.
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Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois and a Psychologist with the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He is the author of 50 books, 150 articles and developed and produced over 250 commercial videotapes that feature the most prominent leaders in the field.
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