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The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy
The Patient Who Cured His Therapist And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy Author:Stanley Siegel, Ed Lowe Perfectly sane people sometimes adopt odd strategies to cope with life's vicissitudes, but traditional therapy often misidentifies these strategies as pathologies that need to be cured. Therapist Stanley Siegel sees things differently, and he takes us behind the office door as he challenges conventional therapeutic thinking with his unorthodox a... more »pproach: Instead of pigeonholing his clients' problems by pathology and trying to "fix" them, he encourages them to appreciate their own adaptive ingenuity. In the process, something remarkable almost always happens-as in the case of the couple who solved their conflict only after literally building a wall within their home, or in the title story, in which Siegel instigates a reversal of roles for a stubbornly uncommunicative client who then unexpectedly solves his therapist's problem. Compassionate, entertaining, and always thought-provoking, these dozen stories demonstrate Siegel's convictions that therapy is a two-way street where the therapist has as much to learn as the patient, and that real healing is possible only when the healer truly respects his patients.« less