Therapists' Dilemmas

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT. He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

On the Dilemmas of Being a Therapist - Windy Dryden Dilemmas in Giving Warmth or Love to Clients - An Interview with Albert Ellis Sex Therapy - An Interview with John Bancroft Education or Healing? To Share or Not To Share? Notes on Myself - An Interview with Marcia Davis Commitment - An Interview with John Davis The Price of Keeping Faith Where Are the Boundaries? - An Interview with Brian Thorne In-vivo Intervention or Transference? - An Interview with Marvin Goldfried On Leaving the Fold - An Interview with Richard L Wessler Who Am I To Teach Morals? - An Interview with Peter Lomas Splitting and Integration in Marital Therapy - An Interview with Paul Brown Confrontation or Collusion? The Dilemma of a Lonely, Burdened Behaviour Therapist - An Interview with Dougal Mackay Death by Starvation - An Interview with Fay Fransella Whose Decision? The Non-Improving Patient - An Interview with Paul L Wachtel Missing Links and Lacunae - An Interview with Arnold Lazarus The Psychotic Disguise - An Interview with Don Bannister Therapists' Dilemmas as Stimuli to New Understanding and Practice - Tim Bond

`This book is really about how therapists resolve discomforting conflicts and what such conflicts reveal about the nature of therapy. Windy Dryden approaches this task by way of a series of interviews with experienced therapists from a range of therapeutic backgrounds... the interviews are both readable and engaging... and often give us as much insight into the therapists themselves as to the dilemmas... This book would clearly serve as a useful source of discussion for students of therapy or counselling. It is also a thoughtful and interesting read for any practitioner' - Clinical Psychology Forum `..."Doing therapy inevitably involves dilemmas" says Paul Wachtel in [this book]... Not to discuss those dilemmas in an evaluative, creative and wondering way is to do both ourselves and the profession a disservice... The format [of this book] not only invites the reader into a wider understanding of the orientations of others, but also challenges some assumptions which may have gone unchallenged before' - Counselling News `A considerable array of talent provide chapters... sometimes the interview provided an excellent insight into the nature of the interviewee and that's exciting... [In] the final chapter Tim Bond says dilemmas provide "the challenge of learning from the dilemma about what its existence tells us about our own involvement in the provision of therapy, and about the nature of therapy itself". This statement alone should make therapists read the book' - British Psychological Society Counselling Psychology Review