Review by Choice Review
Geller (York Univ. and Univ. of Toronto, Canada) has written a highly accessible book that is truly, as its title promises, a practical guide for clinicians who wish to cultivate ways of being present with their clients. The book's suggestions for how to improve the therapeutic encounter by practicing presence through bringing oneself fully--at levels involving the physical, the cognitive, the relational, the spiritual, and the emotional--are articulated in terms that will benefit clinicians of all levels equally. The research base is rooted in recent neuroscientific findings concerning how humans interact most successfully and genuinely with other humans. This book maps a vision for psychotherapy training that will benefit teachers, supervisors, and practitioners in psychology, social work, psychiatry, and the medical field generally. This book will likely be considered an essential training manual for those clinicians who value themselves as a primary instrument of healing. There is no other book in the last decade as compelling and valuable as this one on the topic of therapeutic presence. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals. --Michael Uebel, University of Texas
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Review by Choice Review
