Therapy for Therapists (a guide to changing lives)

978-0-9844895-9-6 $49.95

Can People Actually Change?

In almost every therapist lies an inherent flaw. This flaw prevents them from helping clients to make lasting changes. Temporary changes; the usual, will-powered, behavioral and cognitive kind? They can get clients to do those. But permanent changes, the kind which alter the client's very nature? Not so much.

The flaw? To get licensed, they must learn to imitate what the great therapists did. Ironically, those great therapists were great because they didn't do this. Rather, what made them great was that they were being themselves. And being themselves IS what gave them the power to change lives.

In this book, Steven Paglierani draws on his three decades of experience to teach therapists to be themselves, with practical suggestions, poignant stories, and heart-felt advice on everything therapists do. Practice management and better self-care to cutting-edge therapies based on his school of therapy, The Emergence Therapies. Do you want to learn to actually change lives, while falling in love what you do? If you’re willing to do the work, then this book will show you how.

PSY028000 PSYCHOLOGY / Practice Management
PSY046000 PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General

On Therapists Being Themselves

There's so much I could say about what makes this book unique. But I worry, whatever I say will just sound like common therapist bullshit. In an effort to address this, I've placed a few exerpts from the Table of Contents below. Besides this though, I want to mention a few things you may find interesting.

To begin with there are four sections, sixteen chapters, more than 300,000 words, and over 700 pages. And despite the occasional jargon, none of it is boring or dry, or anything other than personal and warm.

What's in these Sections and Chapters? If you're interested, here's the short list. [Warning. Therapist's jargon ahead.]

• Therapy Practice Basics (Getting & Keeping Clients, Stories, Tips & Pointers, Therapy & the Room, Bookkeeping & Paperwork)
• Therapy Session Basics (Burnout, Boundaries, & Rapport, Getting Lost in Sessions, Paper Therapies, Is It Time To End Therapy?)
• The 4 Fundamental Skills (Therapy & Regression, Therapy & Transference, Therapy & Wounds, Therapy & Healing)
• The 4 Emergence Therapies (Visual Dialogue, Direct Emergence, Layered Memory, Mirror Work)

Of particular note is the section devoted to the science behind changing a life. Know it passes the Rutherford test. You can teach it to the barmaid. This section alone should improve every one of your therapist skills. It will also likely challenge much of what you believe about what does and doesn't make therapy succeed.

Another difference occurs in the End Notes which follow each section. No book on therapy includes a teacher's students seriously challenging him. Here my two apprentices, Sam and Maria, push me for evidence for my claims. Admittedly, in these exchanges, they often teach this old dog as much as I teach them. Sometimes more.

As for the samples from the Table of Contents, just click the "Show More" link. And for samples of the warm stuff, click the Short Readings menu tab.

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