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A curious calling : unconscious motivations for practicing psychotherapy / Michael B. Sussman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sussman, Michael B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Professional-Patient Relations.
- Psychotherapist and patient.
- Vocational guidance.
- Psychotherapy.
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Psychotherapists--Psychology.
- Psychotherapists.
- Motivation.
- Medical Subjects:
- Professional-Patient Relations.
- Motivation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ; cm.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Plymouth : Jason Aronson, c2007.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- The fascination of psychotherapy
- The attempt to master one's own conflicts
- Satisfactions and psychological benefits derived from the practice of psychotherapy
- Motives related to instinctual aims
- Motives related to narcissism and the development of the self
- Motives involving object relations
- Therapist profiles
- Conclusions and further reflections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-21896-8
- 979-82-16-43729-1
- 0-7425-7612-4
- OCLC:
- 1453421850
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