Sharing the Journey: a psychotherapist reflects on her work

By Judith A. Goren

Author Judith A. Goren, PhD, invites us into her office and shows us the daily considerations of psychotherapy from her perspective as a humanistic psychologist in private practice. Sharing the Journey focuses on her own experience over many years. Its chapters offer advice and helpful information to the next generation of new practitioners. Written without technical jargon and with honesty and humor, this collection of short essays will be particularly useful for students, interns and new therapists in counseling, social work and psychology. Their teachers, mentors, supervisors and clients will also want to read it. Some of the topics covered include:
establishing ground rules with clients the business side of private practice working with adults abused as children principles of effective listening self-care for the therapist Dr. Goren's essays illuminate timeless issues shared by all psychotherapists.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595324940
• ISBN13: 9780595324941
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bookpleasures.com review

Equal parts reflection on her long career as a humanistic psychologist and primer on the daily practicalities of her profession, Sharing the Journey: a Psychotherapist Reflects on her Work, provides an entertaining glimpse into the normally off-limits areas of the psychotherapist's mind. The book begins with a compelling prologue discussing psychotherapy and the paradoxes involved with it. There are indeed paradoxes, and throughout the book Goren uses her professional insight to discuss them - not just by presenting her opinions, but by fairly exploring both sides of the issues at hand. The book is filled with essays that illustrate the intricacies of Goren's field and keep the reader engaged by presenting vivid composite stories of clients she's worked with, psychotherapeutic techniques and issues that have intrigued her, and finally how she disengaged from it all and retired from practice. Employing a writing style that is clear and flowing, Goren nicely portrays the career of a psychotherapist from start to finish. Jim Curtiss www.Bookpleasures.com

A Great Primer on the process of psychotherapy

If you are thinking of becoming a therapist or, if you are thinking about entering into therapy and wonder what it's all about, then this is the book for you. It provides an excellent insight into the day-to-day world of the psychotherapist and the process of therapy. If I were teaching a class on the subject, I would make it required reading for my students.