A history of a childhood abuse is not a life sentence. Here is hope, healing, and a chance to recover the self lost in childhood. Drawing on his extensive work with Adult Children, and on his own experience as a survivor of emotional neglect, therapist Steven Farmer demonstrates that through exercises and journal work, his program can help lead you through grieving your lost childhood, to become your own parent, and integrate the healing aspects of spiritual, physical, and emotional recovery into your adult life.
The violent forms of child abuse that make headlines are not the only ones that leave lifelong scars. A child who grows up in an unstable environment where empathy, clear boundaries and trust are lacking, can end up living a ravaged adulthood. Children can be crippled by mixed messages, family secrets and reversed parent-child roles. Many victims of these practices are not even sure their childhood was abusive. This balanced, practical guide delineates traits of abusive families. Narrative vignettes in each section illustrate and personalize critical issues. Most valuable is the step-by-step self-help program that includes exercises and journal work for recovery.

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3 Stars A few good ideas, needs more ideas to help people who were abused..
I get the idea that most of the people writing reviews of these books are Psychologists and aren’t people who were actually abused.. I thought there were a few good ideas. It was good at showing what characteristics people who were abused have, but most people who were abused already know they have all these characteristics. They are trying to figure out what “normal” is and how to get from point A to point B, and to be honest if they are buying this book, they’re buying this book to get help and not to come up with all the theories and all. That said, it’s still better than most of the other books I’ve read, and it still has good ideas that are worth getting the book for. There’s a section on listening to what’s around you.. I had been going to the swimming pool several times a week for the past few years, and I never really heard the sounds of the water splashing, or the kids playing, or the lifeguard, or the parents sitting there, I just tuned it all out, like everything and everyone else.

but it’s still not a lot of help to a person who has been abused. It’s really more for therapists to be honest, and that does me little good, to be honest. but I’m still glad I got the book,a nd I don’t regret getting it. Some of them are a waste.

5 Stars Healing Abuse
If you have been abused: sexually, mentally or verbally by a parent or guardian, and you are the walking “wounded”, you need to read this book. It helps you to get past all that trauma, forgive that person and go on with your life. Forgiveness doesn’t mean you’ll ever forget, it means you let go. There’s so much you can do on your own and this is a great start!!

Paula

4 Stars Adult Children of Abusive Parents
This book made me feel the pain of those who have suffered at the hands of abusive parents. It proved to be useful for my course project.

2 Stars Very Dissapointed with this book
I could not finish this book. In part one I kept reading about daughters being molested by their fathers and step-fathers — it was too much.

2 Stars Starts out great, then doesn’t measure up.
I found that this book, although promising a fresh look at the age old problems of adult children of abuse, falls short in the long run. Adults who experienced abuse as children are usually well aware of that abuse. This book deals with uncovering the abuse, and then takes, in my opinion, controversial steps at therapy. Those steps include a “reconstruction of the past” in essence fabricating lies and letting those lies replace the truths of the abuse. I, for one, was looking for a way to defeat the anger I feel, not reconstruct my past into some idyllic existence. For me, living a lie where I remember parents who never existed would only be compounding the problem.

So, I cannot recommend this book as part of an affective regimen of therapy.

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This clinically based manual takes readers through the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) which is the basis of a specific form of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (BPP). The CCRT method is research-supported and easily operationalized. The CCRT method offers symptom relief and limited but significant character change in a strongly interactive 16-session format. It focuses on helping the client to work through the circumscribed area of maladaptive functioning. After presenting general background about BPPs and a specific discussion of the CCRT rationale and process, the author offers the reader a portrait of CCRT therapy in action. In an extended clinical vignette, the reader may follow the therapist and client in a step-by-step manner, from initial session, to therapist formation, articulation and presentation of the CCRT. The volume outlines the 16-session course of therapy including termination and follow-up. This book will be of use to clinicians and directors of postgraduate psychology programmes, mental health training centres, psychiatric residency programmes and to students.

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5 Stars Enormously Helpful
I’ve been using this book for a number of years with my counseling students. Howard Book provides a very accessible framework that is tremendously helpful in clarifying client dynamics.

John Christopher, Ph.D.

Professor of Counseling Psychology

Montana State University

5 Stars Very worthwhile publication
I enjoyed this book immensely. It was refreshing to note that the “brief psychodynamic” perspective detailed by Book did not refer at all to the Freudian model of the psyche (id - ego - superego). Indeed the model presented could as easily have been termed “interpersonal relationship therapy”, as there was little to betray its psychodynamic roots. Book had no need for the traditional psychodynamic model in order to use this therapeutic modality so, citing parsimony, he left it out.

5 Stars would buy from again!
my book arrived promptly and in great condition! i would certainly order from this seller again.

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“Silent Grief” is a book for and about “suicide survivors” - those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself - several members of his family have taken their own lives - and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reactions and various ways of coping. Their message is that it is important to share one’s experience of “survival” with others and they encourage survivors to overcome the perceived stigma or shame associated with suicide and to seek support from self-help groups, psychotherapy, family therapy, Internet support forums or simply a friend or family member who will listen. “Silent Grief” gives valuable insights into living in the wake of suicide and provides useful strategies and support for those affected by a suicide, as well as professionals in the field of psychology, social work, and medicine.

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5 Stars Compassionate and comforting
Those left behind in the wake of a suicide do not need nor cannot take in a mass of psychological jargon, statistical abstracts or pie charts and graphs. What they need is the reassurance that they are not alone, that there is a community of compassionate, sensitive people which will welcome them as they try to absorb and accept their loss. “Silent Grief” provides a real service in helping the reader to sort out his feelings and to begin to make sense of the senseless.

Authors Lukas and Seiden provide many real life examples of the behaviors of suicide survivors. These should be helpful to anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide, no matter how long ago the event occurred, no matter how close emotionally the survivor was to the deceased, even if they were not family.

Although they do not mention Elisabeth Kubler-Ross by name, Lukas and Seiden do detail her famous five stages of grief, (from her 1969 book, “On Death and Dying”) and explain that these emotions and behaviors can and often do run deeper in suicide survivors than in those mourning the death, say, of an elderly person who dies of natural causes. The stages of grief and the order in which they are experienced are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. Not everyone goes through all the stages, regardless of the intensity or nature of their loss. But there are suicide survivors who get stuck in one stage of grief never to leave it, not for years or even decades. “Silent Grief” discusses not only why this happens, but the ways in which the suicide survivor can become “unstuck,” and finally achieve acceptance of his loss.

To work one’s way through the process of grieving can take years. I lost a brother to suicide in 1995. He was only 31. The authors discuss deep, unrelenting depression as a primary cause of almost every suicide. This my brother experienced for years, and it seemed resistant to treatment. Now, although there are days when I feel his presence acutely, and other days when it seems as if his death just occurred, I did eventually reach the acceptance phase, but it took about six years. (I don’t know if this was a long or short period of time, nor even if there are any meaningful yardsticks.)

I don’t believe it is the intention of Lukas and Seiden to encourage the reader in accelerating the grieving process. Rather, their many real-life examples make it easier to understand the complexities, the patience and the backtracking that will inevitably mark the road to recovery. It has been said that while a suicide survivor will never get over it, he can eventually get used to it. Only by completing this process can acceptance of this unimaginably painful event be achieved. “Silent Grief” offers hope that one day acceptance can be achieved, and that the process may be arduous, but reaching this vital last stage of the journey does not mean abandoning the memory of or forgetting the one who died.

Those who need to read “Silent Grief” know who they are, but it may be very difficult for them to pick it up. Perhaps a loved one can introduce them to its wisdom, compassion and hope. The survivor needs all of these, and “Silent Grief” is a safe and comforting place to begin.

5 Stars Excellent book for therapists or family members of those who have completed suicide
This slim volume was originally published in 1987, with the long-overdue revised version arriving in 2007. Authors Lukas and Seiden acknowledge that in the years between the two editions, the subject of suicide has garnered much more of a public forum, particularly with the advent of the internet. However, they maintain that what hasn’t changed is the profound, traumatic effect which suicide has upon those left behind, known here as suicide survivors. This book focuses on those survivors–how they react, the bargains they make in order to survive, and how they can learn to respond and move past their grief. Woven into the book are narrative accounts of many different survivors of suicide, including one of the authors, Lukas, who lost not only his mother but also his aunt, uncle, and eventually his brother to suicide as well.

Because silence often abounds after a suicide, the authors strive to break that silence through freely sharing just what happens to the survivor after someone commits suicide. Common emotions are discussed, including guilt, shame, and denial. In the second part of the book, the authors describe in detail what they term “bargains” that survivors make with respect to the suicide. These bargains allow the survivor to go on living, perhaps reducing their emotional pain, but there is a downside to each bargain made. Examples of bargains include keeping silent, scapegoating, punishing with guilt, cutting off, and the ultimate bargain, committing suicide (estimates suggest that suicide rates for survivors are between 80 and 300 percent higher than those for the general population). In the final section of the book, however, the authors recommend ways for overcoming these bargains through both getting help from and giving help to others. They offer suggestions for talking about the suicide in addition to reviewing basic listening techniques. The book concludes with some useful resources for finding self-help groups as well as suggestions for further reading.

This book is intended specifically neither for suicide survivors nor for professionals, yet it is well-suited to both audiences. Survivors will definitely find kinship–if not comfort–in the many personal stories featured here; they are also likely to feel less isolated and more accepting of their emotional reactions upon learning that they are not alone. Similarly, mental health professionals will benefit by gaining greater insight into and compassion for their clients who are suicide survivors. Overall, a well-done, very readable work for virtually all populations; highly recommended.

5 Stars Exceptional Resource!
I am a seminary student in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was introduced to this book in a class I took that addressed the issue of Grief in Pastoral Care. For me, this book was transformative. While I have never experienced the grief of losing a loved one to suicide, I have experienced traumatic grief in my life. This book has the gift of speaking to many people who have been traumatized in their grief experience, whether suicide-related or not. I am also a Police Chaplain and have recently been called to minister to four different families who have been impacted by this type of tragic loss. This resource not only helped me in my immediate ministry with the families, but I have used it as resource material for other Police Department Chaplains as well. Thanks to the author, for speaking so honestly about this topic and for helping those of us “on the front lines” educate and by God’s infinite grace, perhaps, save lives.

5 Stars Book: Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide
Excellent help for me and my family following my fathers suicide. Helped me to understand and not be ridden with guilt.

4 Stars Good points
This book is a good idea for anyone going thru the trauma of a suicide

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gy of online life and how the computer provokes new ways of thinking about our most basic concepts of self.Sherry Turkle is rapidly becoming the sociologist of the Internet, and that’s beginning to seem like a good thing. While her first outing, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, made groundless assertions and seemed to be carried along more by her affection for certain theories than by a careful look at our current situation, Life on the Screen is a balanced and nuanced look at some of the ways that cyberculture helps us comment upon real life (what the cybercrowd sometimes calls RL). Instead of giving in to any one theory on construction of identity, Turkle looks at the way various netizens have used the Internet, and especially MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions), to learn more about the possibilities available in apprehending the world. One of the most interesting sections deals with gender, a topic prone to rash and partisan pronouncements. Taking as her motto William James’s maxim “Philosophy is the art of imagining alternatives,” Turkle shows how playing with gender in cyberspace can shape a person’s real-life understanding of gender. Especially telling are the examples of the man who finds it easier to be assertive when playing a woman, because he believes male assertiveness is now frowned upon while female assertiveness is considered hip, and the woman who has the opposite response, believing that it is easier to be aggressive when she plays a male, because as a woman she would be considered “bitchy.” Without taking sides, Turkle points out how both have expanded their emotional range. Other topics, such as artificial life, receive an equally calm and sage response, and the first-person accounts from many Internet users provide compelling reading and good source material for readers to draw their own conclusions.

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2 Stars Postmodernist vagueries and mostly trivial observations
If reading postmodernist types of things turns you on, you’ll like this book. The author talks a lot about how computers have moved from “modernist calculation” to “postmodernist simulation.” Why there is a need to attach the modernist-postmodernist modifiers to calculation and simulation is never explained, and I suspect it is just done to give the book a tres chic intellectual veneer. As with nearly all authors who use the term, the author does not define “postmodernism” or explain what it has to do with anything in her book. Also a lot of vague talk about how “people didn’t used to like to do” such and so a thing with computers but now “people like to do” such and so something other thing with computers a lot more. No data of course, that would offend the postmodernists reading the book. An important - VERY important - topic treated in a shabby manner.

4 Stars general comment
Turkle’s book is one of the first ethnographies published on virtual communities and how we construct and reconstruct our senses of identity through the internet. It is therefore an important starting point for anyone with a general interest in this area research. Since this book was originally published however there has been a significant amount of work done on virtual communities and self-identity on the WWW that differs somewhat from Turkle’s. Therefore although I highly recommend the book I also suggest that you take the time to explore this subject area more broadly before drawing any conclusions.

5 Stars Relevant & Important
Turkle’s research findings are mind-boggling, exciting, terrifying, and (whether we like what we see or not) revealing. We see, here, glimpses of the future as a place where the real and virtual collide. Where who we are and how we think will differ markedly from all we’ve taken for granted in the old familiar pre-Info-Age. Anyone who works with children or adolescents of the Info-Age should read this book! I recommend it, along with the more up-to-date work by Don Tapscott.

5 Stars Lots on Bots
This book isn’t for the newbie, but if you’re already familiar with computers and what’s possible on the Internet but haven’t yet explored the world of MUDS and the like, this is one of the most informative and fascinating looks at the virtual world that you’ll come across. Even more interesting are the questions that Turkle poses regarding self-identity and what the “self” is given the new “non”-environment we call cyberspace. Though offering few answers, the author introduces us to a future world of seemingly infinite possibilities for self-exploration and challenges us to ponder its implications for who we are, how we define ourselves, and how we interact with one another.

5 Stars A Disquietingly Personal Book…More than I Expected
Turkle does a magnificant job in illustrating the human persona while online. As our culture becomes more and more internet dependent, and it becomes easier to be a “globalized” person, psychological changes are sure to take effect. “Life On the Screen” is illustrated with some wry humor, as well as vivid examples.

Sometimes doing someonething online makes it seem less “real.” For instance, carding something-aka using a fake credit card number-is less ‘real’ if you do it online, to order something, than it is to waltz into say, BestBuy and using a fake credit card there. Just because you do it in a non-physical area (what is Cyberspace made up of, anyway?) does not mean that it is still not a crime, and that it is still not capable of having reprecussions.

Shirley Turkle captures precisely what someone, as a user and interacter with the internet, thinks, and does while online. She acknowledges the existance of the internet being a place where people are able to forge “cyber-identities”…or get more comfortable being who they are. She also outlines something that is perhaps one of the most secure things about the internet in this day and age-that on the internet, you are anonymous. Therefore, you can do what you wish (good or bad) and you can interact with others via MUDs or the like…or you can decide exactly how people will think of you as.

The internet is a secure medium for an insecure person. It is where many people who feel unaccepted in life go as refuge, to seek friends and partners who are like them, and who understand. This is also recognized in this book.

I highly recommend anyone, either the hacker, or the suit, or the working mother, or the teenager, to pick up this book and just to start reading. It is disturbing, almost, to find that there are so many people who interact with the internet, and so many different things that they do. The globalization that comes along with the net provokes you to start rethinking many things, and questioning many others….The internet, as portrayed in this book, also helps the reader to truly examine themselves as a whole.

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In the newly revised and updated Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Third Edition, students and professionals will find a comprehensive array of information that bridges the gap between research and practice and captures the excitement of the world of sport and exercise.

Authors Robert Weinberg and Daniel Gould have revised every chapter of the popular text, incorporating the latest research and practice in sport and exercise psychology. They combine contemporary practical examples, case studies, and anecdotes to help readers better understand different theories, concepts, and research. In-depth questions at the end of each chapter guide readers from research to practice and enable readers to think critically.

The first and second editions of the text set new standards for introductory textbooks; this edition raises the bar to an even higher level with new artwork, photos, and a fresh design, making the text an exceptionally rich learning resource and professional reference tool. Each chapter includes up-to-date information. The following are new features of this third edition

· Extensive material on motivation, social loafing, and group development
· Expanded coverage of leaders in sport, including information on expectations, values, beliefs, and behavioral guidelines for coaches
· Research on anxiety and team-energizing strategies
· Comprehensive data on hypnosis phases, techniques, and their effects
· Details on the use of imagery in sport
· An entire section on goal mapping
· Updated information on eating disorders in sport
· A comprehensive section on exercise addiction
· Material on sport aggression, moral development, cooperation, and gender differences in competition

The seven-part text is organized in an easy-to-follow format that allows for quick topical searches. Key points are highlighted throughout to help readers identify the most important ideas. Special elements such as case studies, new research procedures and findings, and sample questionnaires and application procedures also enhance reader understanding.

Part I, “Getting Started,” introduces the main ways knowledge is gained in sport psychology. It emphasizes the importance of teaming scientific and practical knowledge to better help students, athletes, and exercise enthusiasts.

Part II, “Understanding Participants,” focuses on personal factors (such as personality characteristics, individual orientations, and emotions) that affect performance and psychological development in sport, physical education, and exercise settings.

Part III, “Understanding Sport and Exercise Environments,” examines the situational factors that influence behavior in sport, physical education, and exercise settings.

Part IV, “Understanding Group Processes,” outlines information on group interaction.

Part V, “Enhancing Performance,” details the progress that has been made with psychological techniques to help people perform more effectively.

Part VI, “Enhancing Health and Well-Being,” reviews the roles that psychological factors play in health, exercise, and wellness.

Part VII, “Facilitating Psychological Growth and Development,” examines psychological development and well-being topics that are important to both society and sport and exercise psychology, such as children in sport, aggression in sport, and moral development and sportsmanship.

Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology, third edition, expertly captures the intrigue and excitement of the field while explaining basic concepts and principles. It shows how these concepts and principles can be applied to counseling, teaching, coaching, sports medicine, and fitness instruction. This completely updated text will help students and practitioners improve their comprehension and knowledge of the field of sport psychology.

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2 Stars about the book
i bought this for a sports psychology class. it’s really hard to read, in terms of style of writing. a bit boring.

5 Stars Great Book
The book was in great condition just like the seller said. It arrived it great time. I would buy from this seller again.

5 Stars happy customer
I really am enjoying this textbook. it covers exactly what i thought it woudl and then some. since having bought it i have found out that it is the gold standard for sports psychology -added incentive. its easy to read adn cpmprehend adn the online study guide is just great, full of activities and review options. it arrived sooner than expected too, and i just had it on normal shipping

4 Stars Foundations of Sports and Exercise Psychology
Book is in great condition, very informative and professsionally written. Purchased this book for a college course.

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4 Stars Excellent seller
This was a great deal, as the book was almost new. It has been used enough to cover the price.

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Assure your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while honing your critical thinking and test-taking skills. Over 1,000 multiple-choice and alternate format questions, organized by specific mental health disorders, make a difficult subject more manageable. Rationales for both correct and incorrect answers as well as test-taking tips explain how to apply critical thinking to the question types great preparation for classroom exams and the NCLEX®.

KEY FEATURES: *BONUS! CD-ROM with two 75-questions exams! *Introductory chapter on applying critical thinking to each question types. *Over 1,000 questions all with rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. *Test taking tips for every question.
*All questions written at application and analysis levels, just like the NCLEX®.
*Questions numbered consecutively within each chapter, making it easy to find the answers.
*All questions field tested by nursing students.
*Approximately 300 new format questions throughout the text, the final exam, and the CD-ROM
*Content organized by DSM-IV-TR mental health disorders.
*Key questions on major drug classes, medication administration, delegation, and management content integrated within mental disorder questions.

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5 Stars Great Mental Health Review
This book has a great bank of questions for reviewing material for Mental Health nursing exams. It is broken down by disorder with 40-50 critical thinking type questions. The sections for each disorder are broken down even further with questions related to each step of the nursing process. I would highly recommend using this book as a study guide, especially if your nursing program requires the HESI specialty exams.

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The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings comprehensively reviews the research on psychotherapy to dispute the commonly held view that the benefits of psychotherapy are derived from the specific ingredients contained in a given treatment (medical model). The author reviews the literature related to the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy, relative efficacy of various treatments, specificity of ingredients contained in established therapies, effects due to common factors such as the working alliance, adherence and allegiance to the therapeutic protocol, and effects that are produced by different therapists. In each case, the evidence convincingly corroborates the contextual model and disconfirms the prevailing medical model.

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5 Stars This is a must read…
for anyone interested in psychotherapy research. Just great piece of work; critical and balanced summary of meta-analyses and research done so far on psychotherapy effectivity. The book is well organized and the models and methods are explained with clarity. This book is accessible for psychology students as well.

5 Stars Read this book!
For anyone working in mental health this is a must read. The reality is that the most important aspect of psychotherapy is the quality of the relationship and this is the research that proves it.

5 Stars Wish I could get this book in more hands
I agree with another reviewer, that this is the best scientific review of the field that’s been published.

I truly wish I’d read it when it was published. It’s easy to read, to understand. It’s compelling in it’s analysis of the merits of that scientific art of psychotherapy. I wish that all clergy MD’s had to read it.

5 Stars Psychotherapy Debate
The book arrived in great condition and I have really benefited from having purchased it. I would recommend others buy this book in the field of counseling or psychology. It is a great read.

5 Stars Client Relationship Trumps Technique: and science proves it
Wampold provides us with an invaluable resource. This book is a remarkable scientific analysis of psychotherapy with significant implications for developments both in this, and related fields. Wampold scrupulously and extensively reviews decades of perplexing and sometimes contradictory research evidence on psychotherapy outcomes. His findings lead him to dispute the fashionable medical model’s assumption that the benefits of psychotherapy can be reduced to specific aspects contained in a given treatment: and that it is sufficient or effective to run the 5 D’s model of diagnosis, disorder, dysfunction, disease, and deficit against a client’s symptoms.

Wampold’s review of the literature convincingly argues that successful outcomes depend more upon general therapeutic effects, and is best predicted by a contextual model. It is a much-needed, very extensive reprise of the idea of the primary role of general or common factors in the efficacy of psychotherapeutic outcomes from the work of Saul Rosenzweig who in the 1930s wrote `Some Implicit Common Factors in Diverse Methods of Psychotherapy’. Rosenzweig showed remarkable foresight when he argued that any competition to identify a therapy that was superior to its competitors was fated to end in a tie. He anticipated that the value of any therapy’s unique features is secondary to, and much smaller than, the factors that they hold in common. Rosenzweig is most often remembered for his adaptation of Lewis Caroll to provide the (Dodo’s) verdict on the therapeutic beauty competition, “Everybody has won and all must have prizes”.

More recently, Frank & Frank wrote the interesting Persuasion and Healing (issued 1961 with a revision in 1991). Jerome Frank argues that the weight of development and research findings lead him to question whether “psychotherapy might be more closely allied to rhetoric and its close relative, hermeneutics, than to behavioral science!”. Frank poses the provocative question, “Could the fundamental limitation of psychotherapy research be that researchers have been trying to apply to the realm of meanings methods created to elucidate facts?”. Wampold’s review provides some well-validated answers to this and other crucial questions.

Wampold analyses the literature and research findings on:
· the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy;
· the relative efficacy of treatments;
· the differential elements and ingredients offered in various therapies;
· the effects attributable to common factors such as the therapeutic alliance, therapist allegiance and adherence to treatment protocol;
· the effects produced by different therapists who use the same techniques and methods.
Wampold’s analysis of the evidence for each of these lends support to a contextual model and discredits the evidence base for applying the fashionable medical model metaphor to psychotherapy. Wampold offers a very fine discussion of how the contextual and medical models compete on a theoretical level and he details the criteria for the acceptance and presentation of evidence and the appropriateness of meta-analyses. The quality of the reasoning enlists the reader and is both engaging and persuasive: that said, this is not an easy read, and the writing style reaches out more readily to the academic market than a general readership. Nonetheless, the text is useful to a more general audience and should be referenced more widely for its findings that contradict what passes currently for received wisdom in popular discussion.

Wampold’s well-validated conclusion from analysing decades of variation in psychotherapy outcomes suggest this partitioning of contribution:
1. General effects (common factors that underlie all psychotherapies: >70%).
2. Specific effects (differential aspects that distinguish a particular treatment: <8%).
3. Unexplained variability (encompasses client differences: 22%).

Wampold’s analysis illustrates that the best assessment of therapist competence will always be the quality of therapeutic outcomes. In a challenge to professional associations that insist on the pursuit of CEU’s, Wampold demonstrates that clients respond more to the quality of the therapeutic relationship, than show improvement related to innovatory techniques and methods. “The evidence in this book has shown that specific ingredients are not active in and of themselves. Therapists need to realize that the specific ingredients are necessary but active only in the sense that they are a component of the healing context. Slavish adherence to a theoretical protocol and maniacal promotion of a single theoretical approach are utterly in opposition to science. Therapists need to have a healthy sense of humility with regard to the techniques they use.”

Recent research indicates that the current dependence on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) may be unfounded or at least unjustifiable in some contexts. Wampold strengthens this when he reports that the distinctive/specific ingredients of CBT for depression and anxiety are not demonstrably responsible for any successful outcome in these conditions. Wampold reports that despite strong official support for the streamlining of therapy to a recommended sequence of procedures administered as if from a manual of Standard Operating Procedures, adherence to treatment protocol is not reliably associated with successful outcomes. Wampold warns us: “Therapy practice is both a science and an art … Treating clients as if they were medical patients receiving mandated treatments conducted with manuals will stifle the artistry.”

This fine book is a resource for psychotherapists and also for those of us engaged in coaching individuals and groups for optimal performance. It is my personality type to be attracted to the new, bright, and shiny; but Wampold has convinced me to resist the siren call of unproven innovations and to focus my time and energy on the client relationship as the crucible for positive change.

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By all appearances, Lizzie Simon was perfect. She had an Ivy League education, lots of friends, a loving family, and a dazzling career as a theater producer by the age of twenty-three. But that wasn’t enough: Lizzie still felt alone in the world, and largely misunderstood. Having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, she longed to meet others like herself; she wanted to hear the experiences of those who managed to move past their manic-depression and lead normal lives. So Lizzie hits the road, hoping to find “a herd of her own.” Along the way she finds romance and madness, survivors and sufferers, and, somewhere between the lanes, herself. Part road trip, part love story, Detour is a fast-paced, enduring memoir that demystifies mental illness while it embraces the universally human struggle to become whole.

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5 Stars Can Lizzie read our minds?
As someone who also suffers from bipolar disorder, this book hit very close to home. Lizzie Simon gave us a nice break from the typical scientific terminology, and replaced it with the emotional and mental hardships and experiences that people diagnosed with bipolar disorder know all too well. Her bipolar roadtrip provided comfort and understanding to all of us. Thanks Lizzie

4 Stars Good Psychoeducation on Bipolar Disorder
This is an interesting memoir that is a good source of psychoeducation on bipolar disorder.

Lizzie leaves her good up-and-coming job in producing to interview young successful people with bipolar disorder (also known as manic depressive disease or manic depressive disorder). This is quite a journey for her.

I highly recommend this book.

5 Stars A review from inside a like Bi-Polar mind
A friend of mine insisted I read this book, knowing I was in a serious downward spiral cycle and desperately needed to come out of it. I wish I read this years ago.

I am 27 years old and was diagnosed with bi-polar two years ago. I am a mother of two. My eldest is nine and my youngest a year and a half. For a long while, years, I was successful. I worked two jobs, went to school, managed a law firm, became a paralegal, did criminal defense, passed the LSAT, all the while being a mother and of course, sabotaging every relationship I had, eventual spiraling out of control, … you get the idea, I’m sure.

Because of this book, I am now on the right track. I had talked myself completely out of my diagnosis, as a result becoming much more insane and out of control, until one day I decided to just crack the book…see what my friend was raving about. Lizzie’s description of her breakdown, the way her mind and body felt adjusting to the drugs, being paranoid–it was like she was writing my life, and she really understood. I knew then that I had to get back on medication and stop self medicating. It took time but I did. I’ve been taking my Lithium close to everyday. My life is completely changing. My “prognosis” as my doctor described in a report I got a copy of in my medical records, was fair to poor. But, now I think it’s looking like I could do something with my life, and most importantly I am a great mother again. I think every family member should be required to read this book, in hopes they would understand a bit better.

In response to my drastic change my son recently commented, “Mom, I can tell your medicine is working, because you’re my mom again. You’re starting to do all the things you used to that make me know you love me.”

So please, if you are bi-polar, think you might be, have been told you are, or have a family member or friend that is, you must read this book. It will change your perspective completely, and may even change your life.

4 Stars informative bp tale
book was well written, easy for lay person to follow, insightfull and for the most part inspiring

5 Stars Love Lizzie!
I absolutely love this book! When one reads about bipolar, it is usually medical information describing the characteristics and treatments of and for this illness. This raw engaging view from a wise young woman gives the reader a first hand view of the interior landscape of bipolar illness. We go on a journey of discovery with Lizzie. And an amazing journey it is. There is so much misinformation and stigma on mental illness. This book helps to bring forth the reality of the illness and gives one hope. There is still much to unfold in the arena of mental illness, but it is like any other illness, it is an illness! It’s so stigmatized because there are so many unknowns. Do we stigmatize cancer, epilepsy, diabetes?! I have a friend who is bipolar and have always struggled to understand it and now the door has opened. I am also currently in the wake of standing by another individual struggling with this illness and have gained greater compassion and coping skills from this book. My own family has a lineage of mental illness, though no one ever truly “coped” with it. I grew up in fear and misunderstanding. Thank you Lizzie for bringing forth truth, understanding and demystifying as best as possible the land of bipolar! This is truly a must read!

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