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#1
Apr 23, 2012, 04:27 PM
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This is a take off from another thread.
Has anyone read a non-self-help book that your therapist has recommended. Some time ago (over a year) I was talking with my therapist about the musical Wicked (I have never seen it), I know she is a bit Wizard of Oz fan. So I was in the bookstore last week trying to find a book to read on a trip I just got back from, after looking around for about an hour or so I kept coming back to the book Wicked, I’m sure the bright green that the book’s edges are colored helped to keep pulling my attention back to that book. And while I’m not finished with it yet I’m already glad that I got it. The other tread about reading to your therapist got me thinking about this, sort of a silly topic for a thread now that I think about it.
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#2
Apr 23, 2012, 04:31 PM
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No, my T has only recommended non-fiction. It would be fun to have her recommend some fiction. I've given her books as gifts in the past - stuff I like and psychology authors I know she likes. Not with any expectation that she'd read them, just as gifts. She surprised me by telling me that the voice of the protagonist in one of the books reminded her of how I think through and articulate things. I also gave her a book I wrote and she surprised me again by telling me that her husband was reading it. That was a little unsettling for some reason.
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#3
Apr 23, 2012, 04:40 PM
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My T was reading Anna Karenina last year. I wasn't up to that challenge, but I went to a used bookstore and found a nice collection of short stories by Tolstoy. I read in the nytimes recently that one of the stories I read was recently made into a play, the something (Kretzmer?) Sonata. Anyway I enjoyed it all very much and found it very current, surprisingly enough.
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Apr 23, 2012, 04:55 PM
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Yes, two actually.. One was a book that was a mixture of psychological/spirtual, but not self-help.. And at our last session T used an example from a Harry Potter book while talking about something. He was suprised that I had not read any of the Harry Potter books as I loooove to read. They were just not my genre of books.. lol. So, anyways.. As I was walking out of the appointment, he was like just pick up the book, it would be an easy read. So, the next day I was at the library with my daughter's preschool class and I sat down next to her and look over, and Harry Potter was looking me in the face. So, I decided to check the first one out. I read it quickly.. not my favorite, but tolerable, I will finish the series though.
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Apr 23, 2012, 07:45 PM
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My t recommended a book called Bioethics and Armed Conflict. She thought it would help. It was interesting, but it didn't help. Not yet, anyway.
T and I were discussing Anna Karinina recently too, except that I brought it up. It was a favorite of mine when I was a teenager. I  Russian lit. Don't read it when you're depressed though. There are no uplifting Russian authors.
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Apr 23, 2012, 08:00 PM
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Mine never recommended books particularly but did say she liked the movie "Cider House Rules" so my husband and I went to see that and both hated it
 (for different reasons)
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Apr 23, 2012, 08:18 PM
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My t always gives me a few books to read over the summer.
I enjoyed "Tuesday with Morrie", "The cracker factory" there is more but I can't think of them. They are always about someones struggles. |
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Apr 23, 2012, 08:20 PM
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The one I see has not recommended books to me but once in a year and a half. It was a horrible book and according to the therapist I got stuck on a part that was not what she wanted me to read it for. Usually the therapist acts like I should stay away from books.
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Apr 23, 2012, 08:23 PM
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Apr 23, 2012, 08:51 PM
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My therapist and I read a lot of books together, as well as exchange a lot of recommendations that we never get around to. My favorites are, I think, the children's books. Hard to intellectualize about those. |
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Apr 23, 2012, 11:13 PM
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My T told me about his own book, but actually told me not to buy it because it was just the same stuff we talk about in session. I bought it anyway, and find it really helpful to have the words right in front of me whenever I need them. I told my T that and he said he was flattered.
As an aside, I have now purchased the book four times, but only possess one copy because I loaned it to friends and then they asked to keep it because they also found it helpful. So, I would buy a new one, and then loan it, and then ... |
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#12
Apr 23, 2012, 11:14 PM
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Kind of off topic Mike J, but I've seen Wicked the musical 40 some times - it was a bit of an obsession one summer, I admit, but I think it was the only thing that kept me alive for a while - and I highly recommend it if you get the opportunity!
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#13
Apr 23, 2012, 11:37 PM
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Not so much my T but had a pastor mention Extreme Survival once and it is nonfiction but not a self help really. It's about what helps people survive being stranded in wilderness or plane crashes etc. I used it like a self help and loooved it. :-)
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