Tales from Family Therapy

In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy: Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists, psychotherapists, and marriage and family counselors come together to share their unique experiences in therapy sessions and how they've learned that often the clients know more than they do! As you will see, and as these therapists reveal, sometimes all the top-notch and most innovative theories in the world won't help a client in distress. This book isn't just about therapists learning a lesson or two from their clients, however. It's about compassion, healing, being taken by surprise, thinking on your toes, and encouraging people to believe in their strengths—not just their weaknesses.

Thorana S Nelson, Terry S Trepper, Frank N Thomas

Contents About the Editors - Contributors - Series Editor's Comments - Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgments - Therapy with Families - Courting the Unknown in a Cross-Cultural Context - A Game of Snakes-and-Ladders - From Not Knowing, to Knowing, to Not Knowing, to Shared Knowing - Interesting Moments in Psychotherapy - Hysterical or Historical? - Clients Do the Craziest Things. . . Like Prove Therapists Wrong - "I'm Exercising as Fast as I Can!" Driving Missy Crazy - The Lesson of Courage - Act III: A Continuing Story - Therapy with Difficult Cases - Understanding the Sandwich Man - Voices of Wisdom: The Reality of Delusions and the Usefulness of Hallucinations - A Bitter Pill - The Extra Mile: Therapy in a Truck Stop - The Jockey Who Couldn't Frown - How Caron Kept Her Feet Moving - Developing the Self of the Therapist - Coloring Within the Lines: The Tale of a Buddhist, Lesbian Family Therapy Professor - The Kaleidoscope of a Retiree - Index