Product Description

Lessons from the personal experience and reflections of a therapist.

Being a therapist requires an exploration of one's inner world and private thoughts as much as it does going to graduate school. In this book, an experienced therapist takes readers on a journey inside the hearts and minds of therapists to provide students and beginning therapists with a new way of thinking about doing psychotherapy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100571 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780393704242
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
The Making of a Therapist is a very refreshing and honest book that seeks to support and inform therapists starting out and in practice of the vital importance of self-awareness, self-monitoring and self-care. . . . Cozolino takes his reader back to his own hesitant beginnings as a qualified therapist launching out into practice with real clients. His accounts are sensitively humorous, honest and very reassuring, offering genuine empathy, which the author believes would inspire any practitioner of a talking intervention. Dealing with the important issues of getting through the initial sessions, understanding one's own competence and what to do if there is concern in this area with a client are all treated with common sense wisdom and practical advice. 'Each mistake is an opportunity to make a good mistake. It all depends on how you handle it' is an enlightened way to help any human being to stop trying to be perfect and to know that whatever happens, they can learn from it and move on. . . . Cozolino has also produced a work that I would recommend that a practicing coach read also. The Making of a Therapist is a valuable read for any one involved in a talking intervention. (Pam Richardson, UKCLC )

Clear writing style...easy to read...sensitively approaches a variety of subject areas...Must-buy for those in training and also for lecturers. -- Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Lucy Robinson

The clear writing style makes it easy to read and sensitively approaches a variety of subject areas. . . . A must buy for those in training and also for lecturers. (Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy )

This is clearly a book written by an expert therapist… [F]ull of practical advice, common-sense wisdom and self-disclosure… His advice to and support for beginning therapists is not only compassionate but also inspiring… [E]xtremely readable and the cases so interesting that it could be read also by non-specialists, by anybody who is interested in human nature and human relationships. Highly recommended for psychologists as well as for educators. (E-Streams )

[E]xtremely readable and the cases so interesting that it could be read also…by anybody…interested in human nature…Highly recommended. -- Jitka Hurych, E-Streams, vol. 8, No. 5

About the Author
Louis Cozolino lives in Idyllwild, California.

Customer Reviews

Superb book. Superb writer. Superb therapist?
I'd bet he is.

First of all, this is an excellently written book. It must have been daunting to try to pull off turning the information he provided into such a imminently readable book. But the author hit it out of the park with his writing abilities, knowledge and expertise. I'll be referring to this book for years.

Cozolino leaves very few stones unturned for the beginning psychotherapist.

So, if you're looking for a primer on psychotherapy, I literally can't imagine a better book to begin with.

Fantastic job Dr. Cozolino.

Incredibly Insightful, Warm, honest and comforting
A compulsive page turner and desk side companion for the caretaking profession. You will feel normal, assured and courageous after reading it. should be compulsory reading in all psychotherapy based curriculums!!!!

Great for Beginners
This was actually one of the books required for my Graduate School studies. As a beginner, I have found it to be VERY helpful in explaining several of the processes of therapy. I would recommend this book for anyone who would like to find out more about the behind the scenes makings of therapy and how to develop great rapport with clients.