Brad E Sachs

The Good Enough Therapist

Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Good Enough Therapist encourages readers to explore, accept, and embrace their flaws and failings in a way that promotes effective treatment as well as personal growth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138348806
• ISBN-10: 1138348805
• Artikelnr.: 58054414

Autorenporträt

Brad E. Sachs, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and adults, couples and families, and the best-selling author of numerous books on child and family development for both general and clinical readership, including Family-Centered Treatment with Struggling Young Adults, The Good Enough Child, and The Good Enough Teen. A published poet, composer, and musician, he maintains a private practice in Columbia, Maryland, where he and his and wife, psychiatrist Dr. Karen Meckler, raised their three adult children and currently enjoy visits with their grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Socioeco-location Chapter 1 The Vandal Interlude 1 What is
the Point of Writing This Book? Chapter 2 On Writing about the Clinical
Without Being Too Clinical Chapter 3 Good Enough or Good-for-Nothing?
Reflection Point 1 Good Enough and Not Good Enough Chapter 4 A Place to
Start: On the Importance of Treatment Failure when Treating
Failure-to-Launch Chapter 5 Two Powerful Lessons in Powerlessness Chapter 6
Three Births... Chapter 7 ...And a Fourth, the Birth of Forgiveness
Reflection Point 2 "Why is S/he Here and What Does S/he Want?" Chapter 8
The Joy of Thwarting...and of Being Thwarted Interlude 2 Pull Up a Chair
Chapter 9 Reduced Sentences Interlude 3 In the Company of Shadows: Visions
of Grief Chapter 10 Cash in the Cup Interlude 4 The Adolescent (and Adult)
Saboteur Chapter 11 Here and Not Here, There and Not There Interlude 5 Hard
Winter Reflection Point 3 Blame, Responsibility and Credit Chapter 12 Tough
Love...and Why It's So Tough Reflection Point 4 Ascending the Ladder of
Therapy Chapter 13 The Ambivalent Tango of Hope Chapter 14 Narcissism and
Its (Occasional) Nobility Interlude 6 Unsolvable Love Chapter 15 Nowhere
but the Dark Interlude 7 Wandering Down Dream Avenue Chapter 16 Punishing
the Punitive Therapiste Interlude 8 "Tell Me a Story" Chapter 17 On Hating
a Patient Chapter 18 What Do We Want When We Want Out? Reflection Point 5
Creativity as an Antidote to Failure Chapter 19 Defeated by Success Chapter
20 The Diagnostic Dragnet Reflection Point 6 Learning from the Patient
Chapter 21 We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident...Without Any Real
Evidence Interlude 9 Plumbing the Depths of Power Chapter 22 "I Am Beside
Myself" Reflecvtion Point 7 Kryptonite Time Chapter 23 What We Give Our
Patients When We Give Up...and When We Don't Reflection Point 8 Nostalgia
and Empathy Chapter 24 "Why am I Doing This?" Chapter 25 The Good Enough
Supervisor Interlude 10 "How Is It That I Am Not Myself?" Chapter 26 Giving
What You Never Got Reflection Point 9 How Telling Chapter 27 Loops
Reflection Point 10 Take a Walk Conclusion "Going Grandfather": The Good
Enough Therapist in Twilight Epilogue In Praise of Defeat