Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal

Leading therapists in the field discuss the heart and soul of their work, what makes it worth doing, the love and poetics of helping people change, and how they renew their hope and energy in this inspirational text.

Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D. (Yale '76) is a senior staff psychologist at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California. He is an expert clinician, an internationally respected teacher and lecturer, a well-known author and editor, and a recipient of the prestigious APF Cummings Psyche Prize for lifetime contributions to the primary role of psychologists in organized healthcare.

Gilligan, Foreword. Hoyt, The Joy of Therapy: Editor's Invitation and Preview. Battino, What is Really Important in Life? Bohart, Helping Clients Heal Broken Hearts. Brown, Not Quitting My Day Job: How Being a Therapist Heals Me. Carlson, Turning the Mind into an Ally. Comas-Diaz, Duende: Evocation, Quest, and Soul. Cummings, Psychotherapy's Soothsayer. Erickson, It Warms My Heart. Frykman, Love's Got Everything To Do With It! Goldfield, Off the Couch and Outside the Box. Greenleaf, Life is with People. Hardy, On Being Black in White Places: A Therapist's Journey from Margin to Center. Hiller, Up the Hurry Stairs. Hoyt, Road Trip. Iveson, Blue on Blue: A Love Story. Johnson, Exhilirating Couple Therapy: Singing to My Soul-Holding Steady to My Science-Filling Up My Heart. Kornfield, The Bodhisattva: Tending the World. Korngold, Herman's Wager. Kottler, Love Is a Four-Letter Word in Therapy. Mazza, The Journey of a Lifetime: or, the Adventures of Being a Therapist. Meichenbaum, At My Mother's Kitchen Table: Who Are We, But the Stories We Tell? Neimeyer, The Poetics of Practice: Becoming "Well Versed" in Loss and Grief. Dass, Gawain, Natural Compassion. Ritterman, The Tao of a Woman. Robles, Creating Paths with Heart. Schlanger, Get Off Your High Horse: Reflections of a Problems Solver in Palo Alto. Short, Finding Humanity in Darkness. Soo-Hoo, In Seart of the Spirit: A Therapist's Journey. White, Conscious Purpose and Commitment Exercise. Hoyt, Themes and Lessons: The Invitation Revisited.