i hope this isn't sidetracking the thread or anything. PLease tell me if it is.

i think what i found not to my taste, well i did think he was arrogant, but part of it was assumptions he seemed to be making... about his correctness... and there wasn't any feedback from the patients themselves... nothing of their feelings or ideas. Now, i wouldn't really want their whole take on things, but the bits attributed to them, ie statements in session, seemed depersonalized to me. It was as if he was only able to see them through his filter of correctness... does that make sense? But, i suppose that is partially an issue i have with certain schools of thought overall as well.

i did think he was caring in many ways, and the gift of psychotherapy encouraged more of that caring than he seemed to show in love's executioner.

The one case that stuck in my craw was the only with the overweight lady. He talked basically about overcoming his bias against fat people...his self admitted revulsion. But did he really? i mean, he talks about her progress intertwined with her weight loss and his big excitment was when she'd lost enough weight that she had a visible lap! It left me wondering if he would have seen her as remarkable had her issues improved but her weight not changed? and if he saw her weight problem as being solely the result of those issues? That leads to all sorts of things.

i do hope you enjoy the books, they are worth a read regardless i think.