Ebook: The making of a therapist: a practical guide for the inner journey

[This book] offers graduate students and beginning therapists a personal account ... [It] contains the practical advice, common-sense wisdom, and self-disclosure that practicing professionals have found to be most helpful during their own training.-Dust jacket.;Introduction: Imagination and reality; Discovering and taming the unconscious; Goals of this book -- Getting through your first sessions: What have I gotten myself into?; Getting centered and learning to listen; Now what do I do?; Survival strategies; Beware of assumptions -- Getting to know your clients: Challenges and strategies; Therapist's feelings, anticipated and unanticipated; It's scary to go to therapy, the paradox of client resistance; In the eye of the storm, the therapist's challenge; Turning weakness into strengths -- Getting to know yourself: Uncovering countertransference; Making of a caretaker; Building a satisfying and sane career:Cautions and encouragement; Walkin' the walk.