Sue Nathanson Elkind

recommended for: all psychotherapists & students, all their clients, everyone in any relationship

This is the smartest book about psychotherapeutic relationships and what can so easily go wrong when 2 human beings are working together. Sue Elkind provides a unique perspective, and writes with genuine warmth, humility, and intelligence about therapeutic dyads. She gives examples about what in patients’ and therapists’ backgrounds can, despite their best intentions, lead to wounding and impasses in the relationship. She writes of those pairings that are mismatches and those which can be worked through. She reveals honestly her own experiences as a patient and as a psychotherapist. A very helpful book for both therapists and students, and patients who are engaged (or will be participating in) psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, relational psychotherapy work. I’m really surprised that this book is not more widely read; I recommend it to people all the time.… (altro)