A scintillating collection of writings on the mysterious, controversial, and intimate process of psychotherapy.
Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al-will find this lively anthology an engrossing read. A varied mix of essays, book chapters, case histories, and compelling fiction written by veterans of both sides of "the couch" and representing many schools of thought,
Inside Therapy
includes: Janet Malcolm's
The Impossible Profession
* Mark Epstein's
Thoughts Without a Thinker
* Eric Fromm's
The Art of Listening
* A. M. Homes's
In a Country of Mothers
* Theodore Reik's
The Third Ear
* and others. The foreword by Irvin D. Yalom, author of
Love's Executioner
, offers additional wisdom, humor, and perspective.
At a time when managed care threatens the psychoanalytic tradition, this dramatic, inspiring collection reminds us of the healing power of insight and the unique gifts of the patient-therapist relationship.