How to Be Your Own Therapist: A Step-by-Step Guide to Taking Back Your Life - Softcover

Farrell, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071433651 ISBN 13: 9780071433655

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2004

Synopsis

How to Be Your Own Therapist provides tools to replace unhealthy behaviors with actions for satisfaction and success. Drawing from her 20 years as a licensed therapist, Dr. Patricia Farrell has developed an approach to help individuals manage their own lives by reclaiming their personal power. Her "power tools" include how to:

• Fire one's parents
• Quit whining
• Make lots of mistakes
• Stick up for oneself

About this title

From the Publisher:

Patricia A. Farrell, Ph.D. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) is a licensed psychologist in private practice in New Jersey and a clinical professor of doctoral psychology at Walden University. She serves as the moderator/ expert for the Anxiety/Panic Board on Web-MD.com.

From the Author:

Before you decide that you need therapy, do a self-evaluation with the help of this book and be sure to read my chapter on how you should interview any therapist and the questions you should ask.  This book is intended to help you make your way through life with the skills and new knowledge provided here first.  My approach has always been a conservative one with an emphasis on self-help and skill building and that's exactly what I hope this book does achieve for you.  You are stronger than you know, more skilled and you can begin to re-direct your life in new ways with a little guidance and practice on your own.

I've tried to incorporate the knowledge I've acquired over my 30 years in the profession in a variety of setting.  With this in mind, I set out to provide chapters to address many of the areas where I believed people could help themselves.  One thing about which I had become quite aware was the lack of information about who to select if you need therapy, what to expect, what questions you may have and why they need to be answered.  It's my effort to get rid of the "one up-one down" relationship I've seen in too many settings.  You are a consumer and you're purchasing a service.  You're not a supplicant coming to ask for favors from a superior being.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0071433651
• ISBN 13: 9780071433655
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288