Curious Calling : Unconscious Motivations for Practicing Psychotherapy

Name: Curious Calling
Brand: Jason Aronson Publishers
SKU: 9780765705525
Price: 9000 KES
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ISBN: 9780765705525

by Michael B. Sussman

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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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