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Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greatest Success Stories

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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.

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

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.

There are those patients who make everything their psychiatrist went through worthwhile; "Their Finest Hour: Master Therapists Share Their Greater Success Stories" is a compilation of these shining cases. Filled with prose based on notes from success stories of patient recovery and breakthroughs, "Their Finest Hour" is an optimistic and refreshing view of the mental health profession in general. A top pick for community library psychology and biography collections.

I have never written a negative review but I can't help myself in this case. The author writes at length about how talented he is. The other therapists and their stories are all overshadowed by this rampant egomania.

For some great case studies as well as beautiful writing, read Irvin Yalom; they are much better books and he writes more about the patients than himself.