In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists
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List Price: $23.95
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Manufacturer: W.H. Freeman & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914
EAN: 9780716735625
ISBN: 0716735628
Label: W.H. Freeman & Company
Manufacturer: W.H. Freeman & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 1999-04
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
Studio: W.H. Freeman & Company
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In Session enters the consulting room and cuts straight to the heart of the psychotherapy relationship. Deborah Lott sought out the stories of nearly 300 women in therapy to provide this unprecedented perspective on the psychotherapy bond. What they told her dramatically reveals the dilemmas of being in a relationship that is at once so intimate, yet so formally constrained. This first book to help women navigate the therapeutic alliance, In Session offers guidance to those who panic at becoming attached to somebody whose time they must buy. It gives a voice to those who have sexual dreams about their therapist but are too uncomfortable to talk about them. Lott argues that the therapy bond is an "approximate relationship" that can only flourish within certain circumscribed boundaries. How these boundaries should be defined and honored is the subject of a debate that has been raging since the beginning of psychotherapy itself. Lott poses the hard questions: Why the discrepency between what therapists state publicly about boundaries and what they do in the sanctity of their offices? Can the imbalance of power in the relationship be equalized? To what extent can therapists "reparent" their clients? Lott brings to life the extraordinary story of first patient Anna O., whose intense attachment to her doctor, Josef Breuer, inspired Sigmund Freud to conceptualize transference, a powerful founding tenet of psychoanalysis. She demonstrates how this notion and reactions against it have shaped therapeutic practice. But her major focus is on women in therapy today. These women, whose stories are full of passion, humor, and pain, are the true heroines of this remarkable book. An altogether original look at the dynamics of therapy-love, In Session goes beyond a simplistic condemnation of sexual transgression to describe the complex gamult of clients' feelings that surround these alliances. In the end, In Session is a profound meditation on the nature of love, and its boundaries, in all human relationships. Each copy includes a Reader's Guide, which offers some provocative questions to think about and discuss.
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Summary: Wasn't for me...
Comment: I would not recommend this book. I understand the information, but being someone who is in therapy it made me doubt therapy and placed bad ideas about therapy in my mind.
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Summary: The power of the therapeutic bond
Comment: In Session illuminates how the heart of therapy lies not in the therapist's theory or dogmatic beliefs, but in the relationship that exists in session between the client and therapist. Seamlessly weaving together the information she collected through interviews, research, and her own personal experiences in therapy, Deborah Lott reveals how this crucial bond between women and their therapists requires the therapist be professional enough to adhere to the boundaries of the "approximate relationship" while also being human enough to be empathically and emotionally present as the client's unique complexity unfolds. This book serves as both a "buyer beware" book that guides women in evaluating their own therapies, as well as a poignant reminder to clinicians about the powerful healing/harm duality inherent in the therapeutic relationship. With the closing words of her book, Deborah summarizes how the therapeutic journey can ultimately be a healing one: "Only by revealing what she is really feeling about herself, her therapist, and their relationship might a woman in therapy have the profound pleasure of being truly seen and understood."
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Summary: this book is so informative!
Comment: I was looking for readings on "boundaries" in psychotherapeutic relationship. Well, I didn't really understand why my therapist insisted so much on keeping boundaries between her and me. I didn't see any problems having conversations over coffee if I happened to run into her outside of therapy. I didn't have any fantasies about finding where she lives, seeking her out, but I didn't see any harms to have a socially friendly relationship with her either. Sounded like very bad ideas from my therapist standpoint. Felt like we would jeopardize all our hard work in therapy if we socialized outside of the "sanctity of the office"! Anyway, I was interested in learning what these "boundaries" stuffs were all about from someone outside of our relationship. This book not only answered my questions on boundaries, but also gave insight into all aspects of relationship between women and their therapist. Wow, what a complicated world! My hat is off to Deborah for writing this book so candidly, attributing no shame to the patients for their feelings, sexual or not. My therapist is a wonderful woman, full of compassion and warm caring for me. She's genuinely listening to me with empathy. I gradually progressed towards a complete trust in her. I told her all my shameful secrets I never told any therapists before. I found myself adoring her like a kid. Yet, despite our wonderful therapeutic relationship, I still wondered if I was weird or some thing. This book helps me to understand my attachment to my therapist and don't feel ashamed about it. It helps me not feeling "weird" about my "child-like longings" for a motherly figure in her. It strengthens my trusting in her and in myself to work out my problems. I would recommend this book to anyone who has any interest in psychotherapy, patients or therapists.
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Summary: A Gift--A Must-read for All Women in Therapy
Comment: Even if you are lucky enough never to experience transference and attachment issues with your therapist, there is plenty of good information here about the goals of psychotherapy, its history, subgroups and boundaries. And if you ARE experiencing transference, dependence, attachment or all three, do yourself a huge favor and read this book.
An amazing book. Highly recommended. An absolute gift to women who are trying to use psychotherapy to overcome negative pasts and/or cope with the stresses and losses of the present.
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Summary: I'm not the only one!
Comment: This was the first thought I had when I started reading this book. Deborah does a fabulous job of describing the feelings of transference.
I entered therapy almost a year ago and had been to many therapists in the past. However, this time, something was different. I had never even heard of transference or knew this could happen. So, naturally, I thought again, I'm the only one stuff like this happens to.
I recommend this book to anyone but mostly to therapists. I think they should read this to understand just what we go through. Even though our transference isn't about them per se, it certainly feels that way. I guess it could be about them if their therapist crossed the line, which mine hasn't done.
Thank you Deborah. I needed this book!
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