The therapist as a person : life crises, life choices, life experiences, and their effects on treatment /

Gerson's book is an excellent collection on reflections of the impact of therapists' personal issues on the therapeutic process. Although there are several excellent books, (Robert Mitchell Lindner, The Fifty-Minute Hour, 1955, comes to mind) that explore the therapist as person, this reviewer knows of no book that offers such a wide range of therapists' personal issues as related to psychotherapy. This book is particularly interesting because all of the therapists view themselves as psychoanalysts, and many refer to their own analytic training and analysis as it impacted on them as people. It is rare that analysts are willing to step outside of therapeutic neutrality or see their personal issues as part of therapy rather than always as an error. Useful reading for all therapists but particularly useful for those analytically trained. M. W. York University of New Haven