Compassionate Therapy: Working with Difficult Clients

by Jeffrey A. Kottler

Book Overview

Clients who defy the textbooks challenge therapists to the limits of their abilities, as well as their patience. The author's rules of engagement summarize creative, caring and imaginative ways to break through the impasse.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555424228
• ISBN13: 9781555424220
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A must-have addition to your reference library!!!

If you are a beginning or experienced therapist, you won't find a better wake up and reminder call to client and therapist care than Jeffrey Kottler provides. Easily readable, refreshingly honest, this book offers experienced insights into therapist/client interaction which are liberating to say the least. Not only did I benefit greatly from reading this book, but best of all, so did my difficult clients.

A fresh perspective.

Jeffrey Kottler's emphasis is on preventing treatment from remaining superficial. His book adds an important dimension to the literature. It describes a special kind of respect for the patient and the latent meanings of the patient's manifest utterances, and it stresses the use of the transference as a prime tool in deepening the treatment. The book is especially welcome as a balance to the proliferation of therapies that overlook the unconscious.