and Further Learning from the Patient by Patrick Casement (there is also Learning From Our Mistakes – but this last book is more of a rehash of the two previous ones.)

Not sure if anyone has mentioned these books already but I thought I’d post about them because they give a real insight into the thinking and understanding behind how a therapist conducts himself in sessions. (Admittedly yet another psychoanalyst, for some reason I seem unable to find many useful books that are written from other modality’s perspectives – I include psychodynamic with psychoanalytic because they seem to go hand in hand…)

I’ve since read that Casement is one of the few therapists who has been willing to write about mistakes he’s made in conducting therapy, and from that perspective I found reading the case studies in these books really valuable for getting a feel for how therapy could work. There are a lot of books out there that give a lot of theory, without showing how it is applied, so books that take the client as their focus and use actual sessions to illustrate the theory/technique I find a lot more useful.

LL (a lot lol)