How Clients Make Therapy Work: The Process of Active Self-Healing

by Karen Tallman and Arthur C. Bohart

What makes therapy work? Ultimately it is the client. Most people cope, survive and grow with challenges in their everyday lives, with or without the help of a therapist. In this provocative book, the authors debunk the medical model of the psychotherapist as healer who merely applies the proper nostrum to make the client well. Instead, they see the therapist as a coach, collaborator and teacher who frees up the client's innate tendency to heal. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557985715
• ISBN13: 9781557985712
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 10.3"