ABSTRACT

Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss their mistakes, misjudgements, and miscalculations on working with clients. Told through narratives, the failures are related with candor to expose the human side of leading therapists. Each therapist shares with regrets, what they learned from the experience, what others can learn from their mistakes, and the benefits of speaking openly about bad therapy.

chapter |8 pages

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Parameters of Bad Therapy

chapter Chapter1|8 pages

The Thing Is

chapter Chapter2|8 pages

Stories Without Endings

chapter Chapter 3|8 pages

A Public Humiliation

chapter Chapter 4|10 pages

A Huge Dose of Humility

chapter Chapter 6|8 pages

The Critical Parts of Me

chapter Chapter 7|10 pages

I Can't Wait Until You Leave

chapter Chapter 8|8 pages

Speaking the Client's Language

chapter Chapter 9|6 pages

I Need to have Safeguards in Place

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

Don't Get Stuck with One Approach

chapter Chapter 11|6 pages

Being in Bad Therapy

chapter Chapter 12|10 pages

I Take a Lot of Risks

chapter Chapter 13|6 pages

I Zigged When I Should Have Zagged

chapter Chapter 14|8 pages

I Felt Quite Helpless

chapter Chapter 15|6 pages

Listening to My Inner Voice

chapter Chapter 16|8 pages

We're Not as Smart as We Think We Are

chapter Chapter 17|10 pages

50 Minutes of Pure Hostility

chapter Chapter 18|6 pages

Letting Things Get Personal

chapter Chapter 19|10 pages

I should have known Better

chapter Chapter 20|8 pages

I Was Blind at the Time

chapter Chapter 21|14 pages

I Expect Too Much

chapter Chapter 22|10 pages

Struck by a Bolt of Lightning—Again!