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On Becoming a Psychotherapist

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ISBN-10: 0415036119

ISBN-13: 9780415036115

Edition: 1989

Authors: Windy Dryden, Laurence Spurling

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Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? In this absorbing book, ten leading therapists write about their profession and their careers, examining how and why they became psychotherapists This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .
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Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/13/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Windy Dryden is Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies as well as being the Programme Co-ordinator of the MSc in Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Laurence Spurling is a practising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in London and a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. He is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he co-ordinates and teaches on the counselling and psychotherapy training programmes, and is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist for the East London NHS Mental Health Trust. He has published widely on clinical issues.

Preface
Introduction
The Therapist as a Crucial Variable in Psychotherapy
The Contributions
The Object of the Dance
Through Therapy to Self
The Blessing and the Curse of Empathy
Chance and Choices in Becoming a Therapist
Living Vs. Survival: a Psychotherapist's Journey
My Career as Researcher and Psychotherapist
A Fight for Freedom
Challenging the 'White Knight'
A Late Developer
Rhythm and Blues
Commentaries
The Self and the Therapeutic Domain
Ten Therapists: the Process of Becoming and Being
Appendix
Author Index
Subject Index