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Arthur C. Bohart and Karen Tallman
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LIST PRICE: $39.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $34.95
347 pages
ITEM #: 431725A
ISBN: 1-55798-571-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-571-2
PUBLICATION DATE: April 1999
EDITION: Hardcover
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What makes therapy work? Ultimately it is the client. Most people cope, survive, and grow with challenges in their everyday lives, with or without the help of a therapist. In this provocative book, the authors debunk the medical model of the psychotherapist as healer who merely applies the proper nostrum to make the client well. Instead, they see the therapist as a coach, collaborator, and teacher who frees up the client's innate tendency to heal. The self-healing tendency of the client usually overrides differences in technique or theoretical approach, which is why research continually finds different approaches to therapy to be equally as effective. If the client is the driver of change, how can therapists help? Often therapists can help their clients by simply providing an empathic workspace that allows the client's capacity for generative thinking to thrive.
The authors show how different schools of therapy have unique ways of mobilizing clients and share tips for dealing with client resistance, passivity, and maladaptive behavior. This practical and provocative book is a must-read for those who care about the nature of therapeutic change.
Book Review
Brilliant! This is the best book I have read in a long time. Bohart and Tallman offer a wonderfully integrative and constructive view of the client as a primary agent of change in psychotherapy. They cover the spectrum, including difficult and despairing clients. I recommend this book most highly. It should be required reading for all therapy trainees, and it is an affirming gem for the veteran practitioner as well.
—Michael J. Mahoney, PhD, University of North Texas
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