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Title: A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Rogers ISBN: 0-14-024012-8 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An extremely moving, vivid account of the power of therapy.
Comment: This book takes you into the heart and mind of a fascinating woman. It portrays, in sometimes painful detail, the importance of the therapist-patient relationship. We observe two radically different styles of therapy, and the power of each to help or heal. A wonderful read for anyone in therapy - my own therapist and I are using it as a tool to explore our relationship.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Prevalence of Dismal Psychotherapists
Comment: Harvard child psychologist and severe child abuse survivor Annie Rogers suffered psychiatric hospitalizations once or twice a year from puberty until her late twenties -- when, after a six year insidiously inept and crazymaking "therapy," an attempt to stab and shoot that therapist and one last hospitalization for another word salad psychosis (and no more insurance), her exceptional and no doubt desperate sister and friends found the gifted and pro bono analyst Dr. Blumenfeld. If this exceptional memoir hasn't become a classic must read in psychology with many reviews by both patients and therapists by now, there are unfortunate reasons. One is that Annie's politically correct adolescence shows in her disdain for the "medical models and diagnoses" Dr. Blumenfeld himself could afford to abandon only because he knew them and the blind therapists who live by them so well -- and thus could authentically reach and stabilize the talented and brilliant, borderline and psychotic personality and doctoral intern Annie. "You have a kind of giftedness, Annie, that probably has always been inseparable from your suffering, and we don't know very much about that yet." What we need now is a wonderful book from the exceptional and sainted Dr. Blumenfeld and more from the healed and gifted writer Dr. Rogers on the two sided magic of play therapy with children. You must meet Annie's beloved "oppositional" 5 year old patient Ben and ponder the 7 foot angel "Theosporus" who protected and accompanied Annie from age 6 to Dr. Blumenfeld's office at 27. A Shining Affliction raises more questions than it answers -- it might have been twice as long, and it's hard to tell if important details were deliberately or unconsciously left out. As it is, it's a daring memoir by a once psychotic Harvard child psychologist that should be a controversial must read classic in both child and adult psychotherapy.
Rating: 5
Summary: powerful, beautiful, evoking
Comment: I began this book because I am a student of Annie's. I could not put it down, feeling like I myself was becoming somehow involved with her relationship with Ben (the 5 year old boy with brown hair and bangs). I felt like I was getting inside both Annie and Ben while watching the beautiful way in which they interacted. I could not be in the room with this book without wanting to read on into the relationship that evolves. The personal aspect of the patient-therapist relationship becomes the center focus as does Annie's life outside of these interactions with Ben. The reflection, time, energy, and exposure that is demonstrated by the author in this book was by far the best I have ever seen. This has become my favorite book, one that I will never live without, and also one that will remind me of what I want to do with my life and how to do it.
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Title: The Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom ISBN: 0060938110 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman MD ISBN: 0465087302 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process by Nancy McWilliams ISBN: 0898621992 Publisher: The Guilford Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline ISBN: 0345339258 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions With Infotrac by Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, Patrick Callanan ISBN: 053435615X Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $67.95 |
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