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Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! Where Have All the “Patients” Gone? Facing the Realities of Practice Today
By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction: Join Us
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Rolling the Rock
By David Dan
Beset by chronic budgetary constraints, invasive regulations, and insufficient respect from society at large, community mental health today seems a Sisyphean career choice. A therapist who's spent his career working in the public sector reflects on what's helped him maintain his passion.
Beyond the One-Way Mirror
By Scott Sells with Cynthia Franklin
A determined family therapist tries to revive public sector psychotherapy using Thomas Edison as his role model.
Life, Death, Madness
By Gary Weinstein
An emergency room social worker's day revolves around handling the emotional crises of strangers facing terrible moments of their lives.
Getting It Right
By Molly Layton
The 43-episode HBO series In Treatment held up a mirror to our profession, immersing viewers in the ebb and flow of the psychotherapy process, and revealing what devoting a life to this work does to its practitioners.
Dear Michael
By Stephen Madigan
Michael White, who died suddenly in April 2008 at 59, devoted his life to helping people find the kernels of personal courage, self-respect, and emotional vitality that would help them create a different story about themselves.
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