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In This Issue:Featured in the Spring 2007 Issue is an Interview with Stephanie Brown, PhD by myself and Psychotherapy.net’s Editor-in-Chief Randall Wyatt, PhD. Dr. Brown delves into the heavy challenges and rewards of working with alcoholics and other addicts in outpatient psychotherapy. She has been an innovator in the addictions field for the past 35 years, bridging the oft-divisive gap between psychotherapists and substance abuse professionals. We hope you’ll be stimulated by her personal, passionate (even feisty!), and highly instructive discussion—she comes at this topic from many different angles and puts it together in a way that we think will be useful to almost every therapist. In this time of annoying public cell phone users and purposefully offensive talk show hosts, it is hard to imagine finding “niceness” to be a problem. Yet Evelyn Sommers persuasively argues in The Tyranny of Niceness: A Therapeutic Challenge that niceness can prevent individuals from engaging authentically with others, leading to all sorts of relationship difficulties. This can lead to challenges for both clients and therapists, as is cogently demonstrated in several clinical vignettes. Do you ever wish you had four decades of experience under your belt, and could draw upon that to guide you through the murky, confusing world of interacting with your clients? Herbert Rabin offers the next best thing in his utterly candid piece, Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes. As always, we try to bring you writing that reflects personal, real-life accounts from therapists in the field, and we think this piece fits the bill, and offers rewarding tidbits for you to chew on for quite a while. While perusing our new issue, also take a peek at our latest therapy cartoon. Spring is a time of renewal for us all. Enjoy! Cheers, Victor Yalom, PhD April, 2007 |
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