Understanding Baffling Psychotherapy Clients: Case Studies, Clinical Wisdom, and Lessons from Fifty Years of Practice - Softcover
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Some clients leave even seasoned therapists feeling stuck, uncertain, or emotionally stirred—and unsure of how to proceed. In Understanding Baffling Psychotherapy Clients, psychiatrist Dr. Jeff Duffey draws on fifty years of clinical practice to help psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals better understand—and more effectively treat—the clients who challenge them the most.
Through vivid case studies, straightforward suggestions, and reflections on therapeutic missteps and breakthroughs, this practical and reflective guide offers:
• an exploration of the therapeutic relationship as both mirror and method
• Strategies for decoding complex client histories and clinical impasses
• Tools for recognizing resistance and subtle emotional dynamics
• Guidance for working with dissociation, autism, and profound suffering
• Insights into the spiritual dimensions of psychotherapy
Whether you’re a counselor, psychologist, social worker, psychiatrist, or student of psychotherapy, this book will deepen your clinical wisdom and strengthen your therapeutic presence. It’s a resource clinicians may return to as their experience and understanding deepen. Enjoy the comfort of having a map of the road ahead, made by a previous fellow traveler.
Note: While written for mental health professionals, this book may also be of interest to non-therapists seeking deeper understanding of dissociation or autism in someone close to them.
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