Relational Perspectives Book Series; 6.5 X 0.75 X 9.5 inches; 156 pages; Very light foxing to DJ. First two pages have top quarter of page missing. Foxing to the exterior edge of pages. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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Title: Conversing with Uncertainty Practicing Psychotherapy in a Hospital Setting
Publisher: The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0881631485
ISBN 13: 9780881631487
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition (Unstated); First Printing.
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

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Conversing with Uncertainty is a unique chronicle of why therapists must use theory while resisting the allure of theory, maintaining a double vision that allows them to appropriate theory only to break it open to enlarge the interactive and interpretive possibilities of therapy. But McCleary offers far more than a vivid experiential rendering of this insight. She argues persuasively, here in conversation with the writings of Irwin Hoffman and Lawrence Friedman, that a narrative case study - such as her case study of Kay - offers a unique window to comprehending the type of reflection that culminates in psychotherapeutic knowing. It follows, for McCleary, that case narratives are especially relevant to psychotherapeutic training, and by implication, to the way in which therapists acquire expertise.

Framed by a foreword by Stephen Mitchell and an afterword by Glen Gabbard, Conversing with Uncertainty is the premier volume of the Relational Perspectives Book Series. It also introduces a gifted writer of rare therapeutic sensibility. For it is McCleary's achievement, finally, not merely to convey with arresting candor the stress and uncertainty of clinical training, but to use her encounter with Kay to probe with fresh insight perennial questions about the narrative structure of therapeutic knowledge, the experiential foundations of theory choice, and the use and abuse of theory in clinical practice.

About the Author

Rita Wiley McCleary, Psy.D., holds Master's Degrees in Philosophy (York University) and Ideas and Methods (University of Chicago), and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Chicago School of Professional Psychology). She is currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, and is in private practice in New Haven.

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