I am hijacking this topic to a new thread because I think it deserves its own place. I know that some of us read books, psychology or other that help us to understand the work we are doing in therapy. I remember when I was first working with my current T that I was very confusd about the work we were doing and I told him I needed to understand it better. He recommended that I read, The Courage to Heal so I would have an understanding of the work we were doing. It helped me a lot but we didn't discuss the book specifically during sessions. He also said that I could go to Barnes & Noble and park myself in front of the racks and see what speaks to me. So...that wasn't such a great idea because i wind up wasting money that way.

He is an analyst and will go with whatever I bring up and that has taken me a while to get comfy with but now I can just go with the flow, it always finds its way back to my issues anyway!

If I am reading a book (and I am always reading a book) I usually mention it but we don't always discuss it. I guess knowing what I am drawn to gives him some insight into me.....Hmmm I take that back this past week we did discuss one book I was reading but it was fiction and I described an incident that touched me in a way that reminded me of my chldhood. So, the book itself wasn't about psychology or therapy but it surely related to my therapy.

I guess Pink's reading of McWilliams is the same. It just happens to be what she is reading at the moment, so it is brought to the table in the same way.

So, any other books brought into therapy? Has it helped your work with T?