Books about therapy?

I just picked up Love's Executioner the other day and so far it's a good read. Since being in therapy I have read a few others because I've become more interested in the process and theories. I have also read In Session, On Being a Therapist, and The Gift of Therapy. Some of these were written for patients and others for therapists but I've liked them all. Any books about therapy you have enjoyed?

I love, love love Irvin Yalom and have read most of his books! I too just finished On Being a Therapist, but haven't heard of In Session, will have to look at that.

I like hearing a therapists point of view towards the process and their clients.

I just finished reading The Intimate Hour by Susan Baur.

I ache for my therapist to open more of himself to me and since that is unlikely (which I fully respect) I then go read books by therapists who share how they feel about their clients.

I just started reading The Yalom Reader.

gail

I have read a lot of books to figure out what therapy is about and what the therapist is doing. I read one of yalom's books and thought he was a total ***. I found Susan Clancy to be most useful for me. Right now I am reading a book about alliance and meta communication. Fascinating to me to see how the therapist tries to manipulate.
Some of the ones I have read are:
Getting Started- Joel Koten
Termination in Psychotherapy - Joyce, Piper, Klein
Positive Endings in Psychotherapy- Steven Kramer
Terminating Therapy- Davis
Good enough Endings – Salberg
Endings in Clinical Practice -Walsh
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis - McWilliams
Being a Brainwise Therapist - Badenoch
Ariadne’s Thread -Cowan
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Ursono
Trauma – Herman
The Talking Cure - Vaughan

How Psychotherapy Really Works - Gaylin

Psychodynamic Techniques – Maroda
Psychodynamic Therapy – Summers and Barber
Attachment in Psychotherapy-Wallin
Trauma and the Avoidant Client – Wallin
Will I Ever Be Good Enough – McBride
Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst - Coen
Modes of Therapeutic Action – M. Stark
The Gift of Therapy – Yalom
Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship – Kahn

The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and its Aftermath -Susan A. Clancy

In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists- Lott

thanks for the suggestions ya'all!! I'm going to check out some of those that sound interesting to me. This is quite timely for me cuz I've been wanting to read more about the whole process of psychotherapy, attachment, the therapy relationship, etc. Right now though I gotta get my butt to work before I'm late again!

Stopdog-

Some of the books you've mentioned are hard to find (they're on my wish lists) so they're expensive. Do you know of places that sell them reasonably priced?

I teach at a university - so I got most of them through our library itself or the interlibrary loan system.
I don't know where to purchase them for a good price. other than maybe used on Amazon. They are insanely expensive.

Half.com is also another site to check for books!

Good reviews of various books on psychotherapy:

Psychotherapy

The one I am reading right now is called Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance by Safran and Muran.

I want to read these books but I am embarrassed to have anyone seeing me reading them.

PeeJay, I invested in some of those stretchy book covers for some of my books.

Books that I really enjoyed were: The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz

& Tales From The Therapy Room : Shrink Wrapped by Phil Lapworth. Great reads, highly recommend them.

I love Loves executioner! Yalom can't be a bit of an *** though!

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My T gave me Every Day Gets a Little Closer by Yalom to borrow. It's about a client that writes about her sessions: everything she didn't say, everything going on underneath the surface, her impressions of what her T said, etc. The T in the book does the same, and they share the letters six months later.

I think my T wants to do a similar thing on a smaller scale with me because she knows how much I like to write. I'm really excited. Anyway, I recommend the book- it's interesting so far!

Do you use kindle?
You can set up price alerts. I got a 40 dollar book for 10 dollars on a one day sale.
http://www.ereaderiq.com/

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That's what a kindle is for

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