The making of a therapist : a practical guide for the inner journey /
Cozolino, Louis J.,
The making of a therapist : a practical guide for the inner journey / Louis Cozolino. - xxv, 210 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Imagination and reality -- Discovering and taming the unconscious -- The goals of this book -- Part one. Getting through your first sessions -- 1. What have I gotten myself into? -- "I don't know" -- Giving yourself permission to not know -- Desperately seeking systems -- Dreams of the Messiah -- 2. Getting centered and learning to listen -- Take time to get centered -- The power of listening -- Eye contact -- Communication styles in psychotherapy -- 3. Now what do I do? -- Psychotherapy in a nutshell -- What to say, what to do -- Case conceptualizations -- Treatment plans -- Case notes -- The catch-22 -- 4. Survival strategies -- Don't panic in the face of the pathology -- Expect the unexpected -- Crisis as communication -- Don't try to reason with an irrational person -- Don't forget a client's strengths -- 5. Beware of assumptions -- Cultural and religious assumptions -- No one is an expert on culture -- Prejudice is everywhere -- The shame of the accused -- Part two. Getting to know your clients -- 6. Challenges and strategies -- The value of confusion -- The good-enough therapist -- Making good mistakes -- The projective hypothesis -- Silence as a background for communication -- 7. The therapist's feelings : anticipated and unanticipated -- Impatience -- "Hey, that was my insight!" -- Sexual attraction -- The power of regression -- Doctor heal thyself -- 8. It's scary to go to therapy : the paradox of client resistance -- The basic paradox -- Meeting resistance with acceptance -- Dealing with cancellations -- Premature termination -- Wanting to fire a client -- Discussing and collecting fees -- Making interpretations -- 9. In the eye of the storm : the therapist's challenge -- Shuttling between yourself and your client -- Shuttling between mind and body -- Learning from distraction, boredom, and fatigue -- On being tied to the mast -- The seduction of words -- Talking less and saying more -- Paying attention to dreams -- 10. Turning weaknesses into strengths -- Taking sides and neutrality -- Reality drift -- Knowing your stimulus value -- Confidentiality -- Part three. Getting to know yourself -- 11. Uncovering countertransference -- Manifestations and underlying issues -- An exercise in uncovering countertransference -- "Things were just perfect" -- 12. The making of a caretaker -- The vulnerable healer -- The therapist's childhood in the consulting room -- Pathological caretaking -- The gifted child -- Shame-based experience and behavior -- Becoming a therapist -- 13. Building a satisfying and sane career : cautions and encouragement -- Principle one : know your limits and select your clients -- Principle two : engage in consistent self-care -- Principle three : keep perspective -- Principle four : watch out for trauma contagion -- Principle five : know your laws and ethics -- What they don't teach you in school -- What therapeutic orientation should you choose? -- Where should you work? -- 14. Walkin' the walk -- Mindfulness -- Reunion.
Veteran therapist and mental health writer Louis Cozolino's classic text contains all of the things he wished someone had told him during the first weeks and months of his clinical training. Now available in paperback, the book includes guidance about working with your clients, such as how to cope with silence, handle their direct questions, and get them to talk less and say more. It also focuses on the inner experience of becoming a therapist and ways of thinking and feeling while sitting across from clients. It speaks honestly about not having all the answers, and shuttling up and down between your head and your heart, and mind and body, struggling clients sit before you. It balances the process of developing therapeutic skills while also taking an inner journey--to becoming the professional, and person, you hope to be. With a new introduction to the paperback edition, this book remains an essential clinical reference.
0393713946 9780393713947
Psychotherapy--Vocational guidance.
Psychotherapists--Psychology.
Psychotherapist and patient.
Medical personnel and patient.
RC440.8 / .C696 2021
616.8914023
The making of a therapist : a practical guide for the inner journey / Louis Cozolino. - xxv, 210 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Imagination and reality -- Discovering and taming the unconscious -- The goals of this book -- Part one. Getting through your first sessions -- 1. What have I gotten myself into? -- "I don't know" -- Giving yourself permission to not know -- Desperately seeking systems -- Dreams of the Messiah -- 2. Getting centered and learning to listen -- Take time to get centered -- The power of listening -- Eye contact -- Communication styles in psychotherapy -- 3. Now what do I do? -- Psychotherapy in a nutshell -- What to say, what to do -- Case conceptualizations -- Treatment plans -- Case notes -- The catch-22 -- 4. Survival strategies -- Don't panic in the face of the pathology -- Expect the unexpected -- Crisis as communication -- Don't try to reason with an irrational person -- Don't forget a client's strengths -- 5. Beware of assumptions -- Cultural and religious assumptions -- No one is an expert on culture -- Prejudice is everywhere -- The shame of the accused -- Part two. Getting to know your clients -- 6. Challenges and strategies -- The value of confusion -- The good-enough therapist -- Making good mistakes -- The projective hypothesis -- Silence as a background for communication -- 7. The therapist's feelings : anticipated and unanticipated -- Impatience -- "Hey, that was my insight!" -- Sexual attraction -- The power of regression -- Doctor heal thyself -- 8. It's scary to go to therapy : the paradox of client resistance -- The basic paradox -- Meeting resistance with acceptance -- Dealing with cancellations -- Premature termination -- Wanting to fire a client -- Discussing and collecting fees -- Making interpretations -- 9. In the eye of the storm : the therapist's challenge -- Shuttling between yourself and your client -- Shuttling between mind and body -- Learning from distraction, boredom, and fatigue -- On being tied to the mast -- The seduction of words -- Talking less and saying more -- Paying attention to dreams -- 10. Turning weaknesses into strengths -- Taking sides and neutrality -- Reality drift -- Knowing your stimulus value -- Confidentiality -- Part three. Getting to know yourself -- 11. Uncovering countertransference -- Manifestations and underlying issues -- An exercise in uncovering countertransference -- "Things were just perfect" -- 12. The making of a caretaker -- The vulnerable healer -- The therapist's childhood in the consulting room -- Pathological caretaking -- The gifted child -- Shame-based experience and behavior -- Becoming a therapist -- 13. Building a satisfying and sane career : cautions and encouragement -- Principle one : know your limits and select your clients -- Principle two : engage in consistent self-care -- Principle three : keep perspective -- Principle four : watch out for trauma contagion -- Principle five : know your laws and ethics -- What they don't teach you in school -- What therapeutic orientation should you choose? -- Where should you work? -- 14. Walkin' the walk -- Mindfulness -- Reunion.
Veteran therapist and mental health writer Louis Cozolino's classic text contains all of the things he wished someone had told him during the first weeks and months of his clinical training. Now available in paperback, the book includes guidance about working with your clients, such as how to cope with silence, handle their direct questions, and get them to talk less and say more. It also focuses on the inner experience of becoming a therapist and ways of thinking and feeling while sitting across from clients. It speaks honestly about not having all the answers, and shuttling up and down between your head and your heart, and mind and body, struggling clients sit before you. It balances the process of developing therapeutic skills while also taking an inner journey--to becoming the professional, and person, you hope to be. With a new introduction to the paperback edition, this book remains an essential clinical reference.
0393713946 9780393713947
Psychotherapy--Vocational guidance.
Psychotherapists--Psychology.
Psychotherapist and patient.
Medical personnel and patient.
RC440.8 / .C696 2021
616.8914023