ABSTRACT
I was recently reading Notes on Cooking: A Short Guide to an Essential Craft (Costello & Reich, 2009). This primer is made up of some 217 tips to help anyone improve their cooking. Several of their cooking tips easily apply to psychotherapy—and can be useful therapeutic metaphors to help clients change their behavior and their emotions. Here are some examples that resonated with me:
Work from your strengths.
Aim at mastery of craft, not of art.
Above all, do no harm.
Please, please, slow down.
Preside happily over accidents.
Hand-select your ingredients.
