Diary of a country therapist
Hill, a psychologist in private practice, chronicles more than a decade of her thoughts and feelings about practicing therapy in rural Vermont. From liberating breakthroughs to personal anguish, she reveals her feelings on the work she does and reflects on the lessons she's learned from her clients. There is no subject index. Annotation 2004 Book N
Diaries
272 s. 23 cm
9780789021151, 9780789021168, 0789021153, 0789021161
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INTRODUCTION But First, a Word from My Sponsors Welcome 1989 Putting the Heart to Work Let Me Go! Professional Loneliness The Gift of Transference The Feminist Gets Nervous Be Careful What You Ask For Courage Failure Feeding the Soul Coming Home Christmas As a Defense Mechanism 1990 Faking It The Witness Protection Program Visibility Weightlessness Identity Heal Thyself Doing It for Free Neighbors Zen Landscape What’s It Worth? 1991 Back to Kindergarten The Bright Line The Cost of Silence Remembering What’s Sacred Pain Makes the Best Therapist Bending the Rules The Politics of Therapy Finally Getting the Drift 1992 Spiritual Winter The Feminist Therapist Diagnoses Oppression How Magic Works A Surprise Working When It Hurts Ignorance The Delicate Balance Worth a Thousand Words Getting Done 1993 A Known Evil Paying the Price One of the Perks The Expensive Gift Up from the Ashes It’s for You Pissed Off Trusting the Experts Living Outside the Lines 1994 Nowhere to Hide A Slump The Curative Powers of May Hear What I Do, Not What I Say The War Against Women Soul-Searching Emotional Whiplash It Takes Guts 1996 Ripped Open Managed Care Rears Its Ugly Head Life’s Vicissitudes For Love and Money Breath Transformation or Technician It Takes All the Running You Can Do And Now, a Word from Mother Nature Turning Gold into Lead The Therapist Finally Matures A Punch in the Gut Still Hurting 1997 Trying to Stay Sane God Visits the Therapist There but for the Grace of God The Trauma Attack Leaving Where the Edges Are The Knowledge of Death Heroes Sucking the Soul out of Therapy Ode to November No Winners Here 1998 Panic Keeping Perspective Grounded The Therapist Lets Go Working While Drowning Powerlessness and Joy Grace The Noose Tightens The Terror Time Darkness Hedonism Cures Overresponsibility Slipping the Bounds of Self Becoming Visible 1999 The Truth About Sin On the Way out the Door Hard Work What I’ve Learned Invitation to Joy Honor Still Miles to Go Before We Sleep The Truth About Relationships The Lesson Repeated Choice Acceptance Taking Stock Authenticity 2000 Coming to Terms The Existential Moment Forgiveness What to Do When You Don’t Like It Midlife Omnipotence Searching for the Truth The Other Path CONCLUSION Counting My Blessings