The Client Who Changed Me av Ph. D. Jeffrey A. Kottler, Psy.D. Ed.D. Jon Carlson

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<P>Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and countertransference. However, while these professional hazards are very real, the scholarly focus on the negative potential of the client-counselor relationship often implies that no good can come of allowing oneself to get too close to a client''s issues. This sentiment obscures what every therapist knows to be true: that the client-counselor relationship can also effect powerful positive transformations in a therapist''s own life. <BR></P><P><EM>The Client Who Changed Me</EM> is Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson''s testimony to the significant and often life-changing ways in which therapists have been changed by their patients. Kottler and Carlson draw not only upon their own extensive experience - between them, they have more than fifty years in the field -