Book description
Are You Considering Therapy? is a guidebook for people who are thinking
about going into therapy but aren't quite sure where to start. It will
look at the various aspects of choosing a therapist, from sorting
through the numerous types of treatment on offer, to deciding whether an
individual practitioner is someone you might want to work with. The book
will not only explain the differences between a psychiatrist, a
psychotherapist and a psychologist, say, but will also give people some
sense of the sorts of things that might happen in a session - as well as
looking at the many and varied notions of 'cure'. For example, while a
behavioural counsellor might make it their mission to rid you of your
symptom as quickly as possible, a Lacanian psychoanalyst may consider it
their ethical duty to see you through an experience of subjective
destitution. (The book would also explain what on earth this means.) Are
You Considering Therapy? will aim to treat all therapies equally, and to
allow readers to make their own choices about what might suit them. As
well as outlining different treatments, the book will explore the
possibilities of going into therapy one-to-one, with a child or partner,
or with a group. It will try to be as light-hearted as possible about
this serious and often anxiety-provoking process, and to speak
straightforwardly about a notoriously unstraightforward field.
