Curious Calling : Unconscious Motivations for Practicing Psychotherapy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0765705524
ISBN-13
9780765705525
Publisher
Jason Aronson Publishers
Imprint
Jason Aronson Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 23rd, 2007
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.50 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Psychology
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What brings you here? Is the standard question posed to patients at the offset of their therapeutic journey. Here, this question is posed to therapists themselves. It presents a survey of motivations to practice psychotherapy, through a review of the literature and discussion of the results of a study of therapists conducted by the author.
"What brings you here?" is the standard question posed to patients at the outset of their therapeutic journey. In A Curious Calling, this question is posed to therapists themselves. Applicants to psychotherapy training programs commonly state that they wish "to help people"-but this tells us very little. What are the unconscious factors underlying the decision to become a psychotherapist? Guilt, compassion, a sense of moral duty, a sense of power? Or a wish to be needed, or to enjoy vicariously the prospect of receiving aid and comfort? For each individual with a "need to help" there exists a unique constellation of underlying motives and aims. Without exploring and facing up to these hidden sources of motivation, therapists run the risk of exploiting patients for their own needs.
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