Title: Becoming a psychotherapist :
Authors: Balsam, Rosemary Marshall.; Balsam, Alan,
Date: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Physical description: xix, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: A way of thinking about psychotherapy -- People becoming psychotherapists -- Getting started -- Evaluating the patient -- Tuning in to the patient in early psychotherapy -- Working with the therapeutic relationship -- The therapist's feelings about the patient -- Thinking about money -- Administrative aspects of therapy -- Ending therapy -- When there is little time -- Deciding about the suicidal outpaitient -- Considering the homocide threat -- Relating to the borderline psychotic patient -- The therapist's love attachments -- Some aspects of the therapist's age -- The pregnant therapist -- The therapist's illness -- A death in the therapist's family -- Women therapists and women patients -- Supervision.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Psychotherapists.; Psychotherapy.