From the best-selling author of The Last Victim, Their Finest Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories reveals the greatest success stories of the best counselors and therapists in the world. The master therapists speaks frankly about how their seminal cases shaped their ideas. Told in a narrative style, each story ends with a unique lesson to be learned. The book is practical and accessible for those in the field of therapy and those just interested in the dynamic approaches taken by today's leading therapists.
Jeffrey A. Kottler is a professor, psychologist, author, consultant, workshop leader, keynote speaker, and social justice advocate who has spent the past 40 years working throughout the world to promote personal and professional development among professionals and marginalized groups. Jeffrey has worked as a teacher, counselor, therapist, and consultant in a variety of settings including a preschool, primary and secondary school, university, mental health center, crisis center, and corporate settings.
Read this as a textbook for introduction to counselling.
This book offers an interesting mix of case stories and different psychologists' approaches to their "finest hour" of counselling. More as an evocation than analysis, there is plenty of narration but little conclusions. It is an interesting read, but not a practical how-to guide.
*Makes for some fine reading hours * Interesting therapeutic stories presented in the same tradition, and by the same authors, as The Mummy at the Dining Room Table. Again, and perhaps unbeknownst to the individual therapists, the theory and technique do not even begin to compete with the healing relationship between therapist and client which is the true source of these "finest" outcomes.