How Much Is Enough?: Endings In Psychotherapy and Counselling

by Lesley Murdin

How Much is Enough? addresses this important question, looking at the reasons why therapy can go on for too long or can come to a destructively premature ending, and offering advice on how to avoid either, with a timely conclusion. Using vivid examples and practical guidelines, Lesley Murdin examines the theoretical, technical and ethical aspects of endings. She emphasises that it is not only the patient who needs to change if one is to achieve a satisfactory outcome. The therapist must discover the changes in him/herself which are needed to enable an ending in psychotherapy. How Much is Enough? is a unique contribution to therapeutic literature, and will prove invaluable to students and professionals alike.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 2, 1999

Reviews

[Leabelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book delivers an important message. I was once concerned that a close friend who had been in therapy for over twenty years had been neither diagnosed nor given hope she could recover from what I now believe to be a personality disorder. There is a time when a person must fly free of therapy to face the world on their own. If this cannot happen of course when the therapist creates another form of dependency.