Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories [Paperback]

Jeffrey Kottler (Author), Jon Carlson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0205430031 | ISBN-13: 978-0205430031

From the best-selling author of The Last Victim, Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories reveals the greatest success stories of the best counselors and therapists in the world. The master therapists speaks frankly about how their seminal cases shaped their ideas. Told in a narrative style, each story ends with a unique lesson to be learned. The book is practical and accessible for those in the field of therapy and those just interested in the dynamic approaches taken by today's leading therapists.

Editorial Reviews

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A wonderful book! I was fascinated to read the conventional and unconventional methods of successful therapists who use their intuition, creativity, and humanity rather than just their training. --Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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“A wonderful book!! I am fascinated to read the conventional and unconventional methods of successful therapists who use their intuition, creativity and humanity rather than just their training to facilitate healing in challenging clients. All therapists, beginning and experienced will be inspired and informed by this book.”
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
Author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

“What an incredibly varied compilation of amazing therapists who, through sharing of their insights, strategies, intuitions and theories, offer both rookie and experienced therapists alike, golden nuggets that inspire and instruct! The richness of the stories of clients' lives are woven into tapestries that read like a novel. I love this book!”
Michele Weiner-Davis, M.S.W.
Author of The Sex-Starved Marriage

From behind closed doors, leading therapists share their single-most challenging and ultimately triumphant cases, and recount how these experiences affected their view of therapy and their roles as helpers and healers.

In Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories, two dozen of the field's best and brightest, on the cutting edge of their profession, relate their most professionally rewarding cases and what they learned from them. Readers will be fascinated as therapists talk about what defines achievement in their field, and how therapy really works. They speak frankly about how their seminal cases shaped their ideas. Told in a narrative style, each story ends with a unique lesson to be learned. The book is practical and accessible for practitioners in the field and those simply interested in the dynamic approaches taken by today's leading therapists.

Jeffrey Kottler is Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton, and has written more than 50 books in psychology, counseling, and related fields. He has authored a dozen texts for counselors and therapists and another dozen on the nature of change. His book, The Last Victim: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers, is a New York Times best seller.

Jon Carlson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, University Park, and a psychologist at the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He has authored more than 30 books and 120 articles, and produced more than 100 videos featuring the world's best therapists in action. He currently edits the award-winning The Family Journal.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon (September 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205430031
• ISBN-13: 978-0205430031
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,672,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes for some fine reading hours, December 30, 2006

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Deb (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories (Paperback)

Interesting therapeutic stories presented in the same tradition, and by the same authors, as The Mummy at the Dining Room Table. Again, and perhaps unbeknownst to the individual therapists, the theory and technique do not even begin to compete with the healing relationship between therapist and client which is the true source of these "finest" outcomes.

5.0 out of 5 stars Their Finest Hour, June 2, 2009

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Frona P. Israel, Inc. "Frona Israel LCSW" (Pembroke Pines, FL 33024) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories (Paperback)

Delightfully written by some of the most renoun and creative therapists of our time. The book was also the first to arrive in my mailbox of all of the books I ordered. Frona Israel LCSW, DCFC

5.0 out of 5 stars Famous Therapists with the Common Touch, September 9, 2008

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A. Mapham (Long Beach CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories (Paperback)

Twenty nine famous therapists select their one favourite case from a life time's experience. Forget about a "One Size Fits All" approach! It is the variety & the uniqueness of each approach that makes the book so interesting.

Each therapist responds uniquely to his client's cry for help. They grapple with challenges and come up with unexpected solutions by using their ingenuity, intuition, simple humanity, common sense, passion & daring.

Without exception, the stories are touching and easy to understand. It makes one sceptical about complex psychological theories that are difficult to comprehend! The stories speak eloquently of respect & and a remarkable capacity to care for their fellow travellers on Life's rocky road.