Lessons From Behind Closed Doors: Highlights From 40 yrs of Clinical Psychology

The author shares the highlights of his 40 years of clinical psychology with 25 scenarios of psychotherapy and the lessons learned.He discusses common psychological problems and provides solutions to them. These include: dealing with teenage power, the problem of giving too much, the fear of sobriety, how to make someone do something they don't want, taking home job problems, and the lure of suicide. Also he challenges the making of a multiple personality, points out how things just don't come out of the blue and how some women confuse love with being treated as a TV set. On effective communication, he shows the impact of calm judgment in hot vs. cool verbal responses.