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...this book is a great resource...Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. -- T. A. Babb, CHOICE Warning label: If the truth about what is happening to our counseling profession is difficult for you to hear, do not read this book! Francis Martin has outlined in a stark, albeit humorous manner, the challenges confronting counselors and psychotherapists by asking a simple, thought-provoking question: Why are counselors and psychotherapists committed to failure? In splendid fashion, Martin calls out the intellectual laziness and ethics of professional colleagues who sit back while other colleagues push empirically unsubstantiated, even bogus treatments, causing irreparable harm to the integrity and viability of our profession and our current and future professional practice! This is one timely, engaging book - and a wake-up call for a profession in need of reform and professional advocacy! -Bradley T. Erford, Professor and Director Human Development Counseling Program and Peabody College at Vanderbilt University; 2012-2013 President of the American Counseling Association An enormously entertaining, engaging, and often sobering tour through the often wild and wacky world of contemporary psychotherapy. The author makes an eloquent and forceful case for the need to ground psychological treatment in more rigorous science. An essential read for psychotherapists, would-be psychotherapists, and mental health consumers. -Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D., Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University; Past President, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology; Editor, Clinical Psychological Science Reading Therapy Thieves is an uncomfortable experience. Francis Martin documents a disturbing picture of current practices in counseling and psychotherapy-but uncomfortable truths may be needed to motivate us to examine policy that governs our profession as well as to examine our clinical work. It is time to reflect on our field and consider the actions offered in this sobering book. -Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin--Madison

Warning label: If the truth about what is happening to our counseling profession is difficult for you to hear, do not read this book! Francis Martin has outlined in a stark, albeit humorous manner, the challenges confronting counselors and psychotherapists by asking a simple, thought-provoking question: Why are counselors and psychotherapists committed to failure? In splendid fashion, Martin calls out the intellectual laziness and ethics of professional colleagues who sit back while other colleagues push empirically unsubstantiated, even bogus treatments, causing irreparable harm to the integrity and viability of our profession and our current and future professional practice! This is one timely, engaging book - and a wake-up call for a profession in need of reform and professional advocacy! -Bradley T. Erford, Professor and Director Human Development Counseling Program and Peabody College at Vanderbilt University; 2012-2013 President of the American Counseling Association An enormously entertaining, engaging, and often sobering tour through the often wild and wacky world of contemporary psychotherapy. The author makes an eloquent and forceful case for the need to ground psychological treatment in more rigorous science. An essential read for psychotherapists, would-be psychotherapists, and mental health consumers. -Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D., Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University; Past President, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology; Editor, Clinical Psychological Science Reading Therapy Thieves is an uncomfortable experience. Francis Martin documents a disturbing picture of current practices in counseling and psychotherapy-but uncomfortable truths may be needed to motivate us to examine policy that governs our profession as well as to examine our clinical work. It is time to reflect on our field and consider the actions offered in this sobering book. -Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin * Madison *

Reading Therapy Thieves is an uncomfortable experience. Francis Martin documents a disturbing picture of current practices in counseling and psychotherapy-but uncomfortable truths may be needed to motivate us to examine policy that governs our profession as well as to examine our clinical work. It is time to reflect on our field and consider the actions offered in this sobering book. -Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin * Madison * An enormously entertaining, engaging, and often sobering tour through the often wild and wacky world of contemporary psychotherapy. The author makes an eloquent and forceful case for the need to ground psychological treatment in more rigorous science. An essential read for psychotherapists, would-be psychotherapists, and mental health consumers. -Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D., Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University; Past President, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology; Editor, Clinical Psychological Science Warning label: If the truth about what is happening to our counseling profession is difficult for you to hear, do not read this book! Francis Martin has outlined in a stark, albeit humorous manner, the challenges confronting counselors and psychotherapists by asking a simple, thought-provoking question: Why are counselors and psychotherapists committed to failure? In splendid fashion, Martin calls out the intellectual laziness and ethics of professional colleagues who sit back while other colleagues push empirically unsubstantiated, even bogus treatments, causing irreparable harm to the integrity and viability of our profession and our current and future professional practice! This is one timely, engaging book - and a wake-up call for a profession in need of reform and professional advocacy! -Bradley T. Erford, Professor and Director Human Development Counseling Program and Peabody College at Vanderbilt University; 2012-2013 President of the American Counseling Association

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Francis A. Martin, PhD, is a Retired Professor and Adjunct Instructor in Counselor Education & Supervision at Lindsey Wilson College. He is the Director of The Center for Clinical Training, in Nashville, Tennessee and co-author of Clinical Supervision in the Real World.

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