Therapists' Dilemmas

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach.  He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

`This book is really about how therapists resolve discomforting conflicts and what such conflicts reveal about the nature of therapy. Windy Dryden approaches this task by way of a series of interviews with experienced therapists from a range of therapeutic backgrounds... the interviews are both readable and engaging... and often give us as much insight into the therapists themselves as to the dilemmas... This book would clearly serve as a useful source of discussion for students of therapy or counselling. It is also a thoughtful and interesting read for any practitioner′ - Clinical Psychology Forum`..."Doing therapy inevitably involves dilemmas" says Paul Wachtel in [this book]... Not to discuss those dilemmas in an evaluative, creative and wondering way is to do both ourselves and the profession a disservice... The format [of this book] not only invites the reader into a wider understanding of the orientations of others, but also challenges some assumptions which may have gone unchallenged before′ - Counselling News`A considerable array of talent provide chapters... sometimes the interview provided an excellent insight into the nature of the interviewee and that′s exciting... [In] the final chapter Tim Bond says dilemmas provide "the challenge of learning from the dilemma about what its existence tells us about our own involvement in the provision of therapy, and about the nature of therapy itself". This statement alone should make therapists read the book′ - British Psychological Society Counselling Psychology Review

• On the Dilemmas of Being a Therapist - Windy DrydenDilemmas in Giving Warmth or Love to Clients - An Interview with Albert EllisSex Therapy - An Interview with John BancroftEducation or Healing?To Share or Not To Share? Notes on Myself - An Interview with Marcia DavisCommitment - An Interview with John DavisThe Price of Keeping FaithWhere Are the Boundaries? - An Interview with Brian ThorneIn-vivo Intervention or Transference? - An Interview with Marvin GoldfriedOn Leaving the Fold - An Interview with Richard L WesslerWho Am I To Teach Morals? - An Interview with Peter LomasSplitting and Integration in Marital Therapy - An Interview with Paul BrownConfrontation or Collusion? The Dilemma of a Lonely, Burdened Behaviour Therapist - An Interview with Dougal MackayDeath by Starvation - An Interview with Fay FransellaWhose Decision?The Non-Improving Patient - An Interview with Paul L WachtelMissing Links and Lacunae - An Interview with Arnold LazarusThe Psychotic Disguise - An Interview with Don BannisterTherapists′ Dilemmas as Stimuli to New Understanding and Practice - Tim Bond