Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, is Clinical Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Emeritus, Department of Counseling, California State University, Fullerton.Richard Balkin, PhD, Professor, Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi and Editor, Journal of Counseling and Development.

Kottler (Baylor College of Medicine) and Balkin (Univ. of Mississippi) provide a comprehensive summary of what therapists think they know about psychotherapy, alongside (or in contrast to) what is actually true about it.

• PrefaceIntroduction 1. What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Really Don't Know Much at All 2. How Myths and Misconceptions Have Shaped Our World 3. How and Why Myths and Misconceptions Endure 4. Some Tenuous Assumptions and Conceptions 5. If Research is So Important, Why Do We Often Ignore the Results? 6. When Therapy Tails 7. How We Really Learn to Do Therapy 8. Intake Interviews, the "Real" Problem, and How to Fix It 9. What's So Special About the 50 Minute Hour? 10. Who Are the Most Exceptional Clinicians? 11. Why the Effects of Therapy Don't Often Last 12. Scolding Therapists About Social Justice and Advocacy 13. Mythology and Ethics 14. Balancing Hope and Despair, and the Real Reasons for Burnout 15. Last Chapter but Not the End References

Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, is Clinical Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Emeritus, Department of Counseling, California State University, Fullerton.Richard Balkin, PhD, Professor, Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi and Editor, Journal of Counseling and Development.

Kottler (Baylor College of Medicine) and Balkin (Univ. of Mississippi) provide a comprehensive summary of what therapists think they know about psychotherapy, alongside (or in contrast to) what is actually true about it.

• PrefaceIntroduction 1. What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Really Don't Know Much at All 2. How Myths and Misconceptions Have Shaped Our World 3. How and Why Myths and Misconceptions Endure 4. Some Tenuous Assumptions and Conceptions 5. If Research is So Important, Why Do We Often Ignore the Results? 6. When Therapy Tails 7. How We Really Learn to Do Therapy 8. Intake Interviews, the "Real" Problem, and How to Fix It 9. What's So Special About the 50 Minute Hour? 10. Who Are the Most Exceptional Clinicians? 11. Why the Effects of Therapy Don't Often Last 12. Scolding Therapists About Social Justice and Advocacy 13. Mythology and Ethics 14. Balancing Hope and Despair, and the Real Reasons for Burnout 15. Last Chapter but Not the End References

Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, is Clinical Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Emeritus, Department of Counseling, California State University, Fullerton.Richard Balkin, PhD, Professor, Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi and Editor, Journal of Counseling and Development.

Kottler (Baylor College of Medicine) and Balkin (Univ. of Mississippi) provide a comprehensive summary of what therapists think they know about psychotherapy, alongside (or in contrast to) what is actually true about it.

• PrefaceIntroduction 1. What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Really Don't Know Much at All 2. How Myths and Misconceptions Have Shaped Our World 3. How and Why Myths and Misconceptions Endure 4. Some Tenuous Assumptions and Conceptions 5. If Research is So Important, Why Do We Often Ignore the Results? 6. When Therapy Tails 7. How We Really Learn to Do Therapy 8. Intake Interviews, the "Real" Problem, and How to Fix It 9. What's So Special About the 50 Minute Hour? 10. Who Are the Most Exceptional Clinicians? 11. Why the Effects of Therapy Don't Often Last 12. Scolding Therapists About Social Justice and Advocacy 13. Mythology and Ethics 14. Balancing Hope and Despair, and the Real Reasons for Burnout 15. Last Chapter but Not the End References