- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Series Editor's Comments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Therapy with Families
- Courting the Unknown in a Cross-Cultural Context
- A Game of Snakes-and-Ladders
- From Not Knowing, to Knowing, to Not Knowing, to Shared Knowing
- Interesting Moments in Psychotherapy
- Hysterical or Historical?
- Clients Do the Craziest Things. . . Like Prove Therapists Wrong
- "I'm Exercising as Fast as I Can!" Driving Missy Crazy
- The Lesson of Courage
- The Courtship of Eddie's Grandfather
- Therapy with Couples
- A Healing Ritual for Pseudocyesis
- You are what you heat or why every couple should remodel a home
- "Will somebody stop me?"
- When lightning strikes a therapist
- Therapy with Children
- The first gift
- I gave at the office
- Perdi Mi Perrito
- Rules will be made and broken
- Humor in Therapy
- Open mouth, Insert foot: Two Tales of Dumd Mistakes by experienced (?) family therapists
- Some things you just can't ignore
- A new approach to suicidal patients
- First impressions: Doctor, you are human
- Help me rock the boat
- Behind and beyond a locked door
- Therapy with Medical Issues, Death, and Dying
- Standing on her own two feet: Relying on our clients rather than our theories
- Living with dying: Stories of working with dying patients and their families
- The strength to swallow
- John: Lessons in Caring
- When you are searching for a miracle, always get a second opinion
- Remarkable Clients
- Three Hundred Pennies
- The Courage to Fly
- "I'm Exercising as Fast as I Can!" Driving Missy Crazy
- The Lesson of Courage
- Act III: A Continuing Story
- Therapy with Difficult Cases
- Understanding the Sandwich Man
- Voices of Wisdom: The Reality of Delusions and the Usefulness of Hallucinations
- A Bitter Pill
- The Extra Mile: Therapy in a Truck Stop
- The Jockey Who Couldn't Frown
- How Caron Kept Her Feet Moving
- Developing the Self of the Therapist
- Coloring Within the Lines: The Tale of a Buddhist, Lesbian Family Therapy Professor
- The Kaleidoscope of a Retiree
- Counseling Your Parents
- Trapped in Grouphog Day
- Ben's Revenge: Portrait of One Therapy Process
- Collaboration With Clients
- Stories that Touch Us
- Alcohol - I Somehow Remember...
- Achelra and the Big Experiement:
- A Story of Collaboration and Connection with a Scared 11 Year-Old
- Learning and Supervision
- A Blessing
- A Trilogy of Changes Initiated by the Amazing Brainiac
- The Tale of the Ripple
- What Do You See if You Look into That Word?
- It's Show Time!
- Resisting Resestance, or a Lesson on Cooperating
- All Depends on Your Perspective
- The Expert Interview
- Index
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