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Narratives of Therapists' Lives, by Michael White. Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre publications. 1998, 242 pages, $32.00.
Narratives of Therapists' Lives deals with the thorny issue of how therapeutic practice can lead to demoralization and burn out for helping professionals. Michael White believes that as therapists base their clinical work in traditional positivist models, they develop a more narrow scope of how to define themselves as professionals and people. He challenges them to identify how the nonprofessional aspects of their lives interface with their work, and to view the therapeutic relationship as an interactive process rather than a one-way relationship with the therapist as an isolated healer.
This book provides many interesting...