1st Edition

On Becoming a Psychotherapist

Edited By Windy Dryden, Laurence Spurling Copyright 1989

    Why do people want to become a psychotherapist? How do they translate this desire into reality? On Becoming a Psychotherapist explores these and related questions. Ten leading therapists write about their profession and their careers, examining how and why they became pyschotherapists. The contributors, representing a wide cross-section of their profession, come from both Britian and America, from different theoretical backgrounds, and are at different stages in their careers. They write in a personal and revealing way about their childhoods, families, colleagues, and training. This absorbing and fascinating book offers a fresh perspective on psychotherapy and the people attracted to it.

    Contributors, Preface, Part I: Introduction, Part II: The contributions, Part III: Commentaries, Appendix, Author index, Subject index

    Biography

    Laurence Spurling, Windy Dryden

    `A highly successful book which makes absorbing reading' - British Journal of Medical Psychology