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"Here is perhaps the most human, common sense and revealing account of psychotherapy available: what it is; how it should be practiced; what it can achieve. Anthony Storr here presents the fruit of his 30 years experience teaching and practicing individual psychotherapy. In the ten years since it was first published the book has been widely read by psychotherapists in training or just beginning practice, as well as in, or entering, the helping professions. For the layman, Storr's book constitutes a fascinating ""inside"" introduction, free of jargon and mystique. This eminent psychotherapist argues that successful psychotherapy depends on developing an intensely personal patient-therapist relationship. He contends it is essential both that the psychotherapist possess a capacity for empathy with a wide variety of personality types; and be more concerned about understanding patients as whole persons than in diagnosing precise kinds of neurosis. An unusual chapter on ""The Personality of the Psychotherapist"" is included because the personalities of both participants must be taken into account in such an intimate relationship."

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While explicitly directed toward physicians beginning psychiatric training, `The Art of Psychotherapy' in fact provides an accessible overview of psychotherapeutic practice. Seldom have `outsiders' had the opportunity to peer over the therapist's shoulder and into his mind. . . . His writing exhibits that . . . brand of enlightenment and common sense that is likely to surface only after decades of intensive work, accompanied by skillful observation and introspection. Like few other works, `The Art of Psychotherapy' speaks with one voice to individuals outside the field and to those with well-honed skills. -- New York Times Book Review . . . compelling humanistic study. -- Psychology Today In this new book [Storr] turns his attention to helping the young psychiatrist in training to answer the question, What on earth am I to do? The answer is simple: Begin by reading Dr. Storr's book. . . . This is an excellent book, highly recommended. It will also be of great interest to the experienced clinician who is busy with patients day in and day out. -- American Journal of Psychiatry Masterful. -- Boston Globe This book will surely assist the therapeutic novice, whether he's lying on the couch or sitting by it. -- Quarto The work of a naturally gifted writer and very wise psychotherapist. . . . All chapters are profound, human, and sympathetic accounts of human vagaries and how they can be understood and sometimes helped. Beginner psychotherapists should read it, and more than once, to get an inkling of the art to which they are aspiring. -- The Lancet This is one of the few truly human books on the subject. -- The Spectator (London)

While explicitly directed toward physicians beginning psychiatric training, `The Art of Psychotherapy' in fact provides an accessible overview of psychotherapeutic practice. Seldom have `outsiders' had the opportunity to peer over the therapist's shoulder and into his mind. . . . His writing exhibits that . . . brand of enlightenment and common sense that is likely to surface only after decades of intensive work, accompanied by skillful observation and introspection. Like few other works, `TheArt of Psychotherapy' speaks with one voice to individuals outside the field and to those with well-honed skills. -- New York Times Book Review . . . compelling humanistic study. -- Psychology Today In this new book [Storr] turns his attention to helping the young psychiatrist in training to answer the question, What on earth am I to do? The answer is simple: Begin by reading Dr. Storr's book. . . . This is an excellent book, highly recommended. It will also be of great interest to the experienced clinician who is busy with patients day in and day out. -- American Journal ofPsychiatry Masterful. -- Boston Globe This book will surely assist the therapeutic novice, whether he's lying on the couch or sitting by it. -- Quarto The work of a naturally gifted writer and very wise psychotherapist. . . . All chapters are profound, human, and sympathetic accounts of human vagaries and how they can be understood and sometimes helped. Beginner psychotherapists should read it, and more than once, to get an inkling of the art to which they are aspiring. -- The Lancet This is one of the few truly human books on the subject. -- The Spectator (London)

"""While explicitly directed toward physicians beginning psychiatric training, `The Art of Psychotherapy' in fact provides an accessible overview of psychotherapeutic practice. Seldom have `outsiders' had the opportunity to peer over the therapist's shoulder and into his mind. . . . His writing exhibits that . . . brand of enlightenment and common sense that is likely to surface only after decades of intensive work, accompanied by skillful observation and introspection. Like few other works, `TheArt of Psychotherapy' speaks with one voice to individuals outside the field and to those with well-honed skills."" -- New York Times Book Review "". . . compelling humanistic study."" -- Psychology Today ""In this new book [Storr] turns his attention to helping the young psychiatrist in training to answer the question, What on earth am I to do? The answer is simple: Begin by reading Dr. Storr's book. . . . This is an excellent book, highly recommended. It will also be of great interest to the experienced clinician who is busy with patients day in and day out."" -- American Journal ofPsychiatry ""Masterful."" -- Boston Globe ""This book will surely assist the therapeutic novice, whether he's lying on the couch or sitting by it."" -- Quarto ""The work of a naturally gifted writer and very wise psychotherapist. . . . All chapters are profound, human, and sympathetic accounts of human vagaries and how they can be understood and sometimes helped. Beginner psychotherapists should read it, and more than once, to get an inkling of the art to which they are aspiring."" -- The Lancet ""This is one of the few truly human books on the subject."" -- The Spectator (London)"

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Anthony Storr is a distinguished British psychiatrist who has published on a wide range of topics in psychology and psychotherapy. His previous books include Solitude: AReturn to the Self, and Jung (Routledge).

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