{"product_id":"more-than-a-mirror-marcia-hill-9781560232513","title":"More Than a Mirror: How Clients Influence Therapists' Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds therapy, More than a Mirror will show you the rarely discussed, \"invisible\" side of the therapeutic experience--how clients influence the person of the therapist. In this collection of vignettes and thoughtful explorations, over 20 therapists describe for you how particular clients, issues, and the practice of therapy in general impact them as people. Writing about therapy is almost universally about how therapists influence clients. In More than a Mirror, therapists describe a range of responses to their work: some talk about what they have learned from particular clients; some discuss aspects of the work of therapy, such as bearing witness to stories of trauma or having to report suspected child abuse, and examine how these experiences affect them personally; and some describe the gifts and costs of doing therapy as a life's work. As you share these therapists'experiences, you'll notice some themes running throughout, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow doing therapy heals the therapist \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eempathy as a way to access transcendence \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe therapist's responses to encountering racism \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe particular struggles of a new therapist \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe personal toll of working with the dying \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe therapist's sexual feelings \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow doing therapy changes the therapist over time \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe struggles of working with angry or manipulative clientsEditor Marcia Hill, EdD, a psychotherapist in private practice, elaborates, \"It is not easy to examine how deeply and personally both the practice of therapy and individual clients influence therapists as people. This book shows you that therapy is not a one-way process, although the therapist is clearly there in service of the client. . . . Yet therapy affects the therapist profoundly and irrevocably. Every client moves us emotionally; we learn something from each person. The business of bearing witness to so many lives transforms us as no other work could. We may write and talk about therapy as if it were all about how to impact the client, but all the time we, too, are being impacted.\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcia Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 156023251X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560232513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.42h x 6.10w x 0.45d","brand":"Marcia Hill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447915917567,"sku":"9781560232513","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72e84090-0217-4584-a059-2986c5f97100.jpg?v=1777235680","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/more-than-a-mirror-marcia-hill-9781560232513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}