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Old Jun 02, 2007, 03:15 PM
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I had told T that I was reading "Wherever You Go, THere You Are" by Jon Kabat Zinn
and he recommended that I read Pema Chodron as it was in the same vein but he liked it better.

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I am reading the Zinn book now too! And I have a CD checked out, From Fear to Fearlessness, by Chodron to listen to in the car. I got both the Zinn and Chodron recommendations right here on PC.

One of the most powerful renderings of self disclosure that I have read is in one of my favorite books, The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination, by Robert Coles. Coles is (was?) a psychiatrist and professor of literature at Harvard. What he writes about his experiences with self disclosure with patients matches most closely how I feel about it. I'll try to find a passage later. In any case, I highly recommend this book!
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