A Patient's Guide to Psychotherapy: And an Overview for Students and Beginning Therapists

9781491792117. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 94. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 94 p. <p>How therapy works often remains shrouded in mystery for prospective patients and therapists in training, which does nothing to help either party.</p> <p>Donald B. Colson, who spent his career as a therapist and psychoanalyst, makes the process user friendly with this overview of what you can expect from therapy. Taking a no-nonsense approach, he explores how to tackle problems head on and work with a therapist to solve them. Beginning students of psychotherapy, graduate students, and therapists in training will also find the text instructive.</p> <p>Colson reviews the reasons someone might seek therapy as well as how to find a therapist that meets your needs. He also explains how therapy works and highlights key concepts such as the centrality of relationships, attachment, unconscious processes, defenses, transference, and counter-transference.</p> <p>You'll also learn the main reasons patients seek relief, how therapists facilitate change, and the uses and misuses of diagnosis and diagnostic labels.</p> <p>Seeking help from a therapist does not show weakness; it takes much more courage to confront personal problems than it takes to avoid them. Start overcoming fear, anger, shame, guilt, and troubled relationships with A Patient's Guide to Psychotherapy.</p>