Becoming a Psychotherapist: A Clinical Primer

by Rosemary M. Balsam and Alan Balsam

Book Overview

This well-respected guide to psychoanalytic psychotherapy addresses key issues for both beginning and practicing therapists, from the rhythm of the initial, middle, and final stages of therapy to the setting up of an office and the handling of fees and insurance. The book also deals with the management of borderline and potentially suicidal or homocidal patients in an out-patient setting. Unique in their direct approach to problems in a therapist's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226036367
• ISBN13: 9780226036366
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

If your dog starts to bark... pull more firmly on the leash

Reads like a dog trainer's manual. Great way to see what an alienating farce psychodynamic therapy is for treating real depression. Read it behind your therapist's back and have some fun with his or her tiny, clinical, robotic mind.