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Insider views about the practice of psychotherapy provide a unique and candid account about todays psychiatrists and psychologists and their clients.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction The Training The Practice The Patients The Ethics The Profession The Personal Appendix A: The Instrument Appendix B: The Sample Index

About the Author

out /f Chris /i E./b CHRIS E. STOUT, Chief Psychologist at Forest Hospital in Des Plaines, Illinois, has directed clinical and diagnostic research and evaluation for many years and has supervised clinical activities at schools and mental health centers./e He has written at length about the assessment, treatment, and outcome of psychiatric problems. Handbook for Assessing and Treating Addictive Disorders (Greenwood Press, 1992) is one of his most recent publications.

Reviews

?The author paints a recognizable picture of the therapists he and his assistant interviewed. Accordingly, the reader is presented with very relevant therapeutic experiences and dilemmas. Some of the chapters may be good teaching tools when the goal is to make the therapist role more real and less mythical. Overall the volume illustrates well how to conduct and present qualitative research in a thorough and helpful way.?-Contemporary Psychology

"The author paints a recognizable picture of the therapists he and his assistant interviewed. Accordingly, the reader is presented with very relevant therapeutic experiences and dilemmas. Some of the chapters may be good teaching tools when the goal is to make the therapist role more real and less mythical. Overall the volume illustrates well how to conduct and present qualitative research in a thorough and helpful way."-Contemporary Psychology