Memoir Serves As Self Help, Too!
Book: The Therapist’s New Clothes By: Judith D. Schwartz Blog: http://litadventuresinpod.blogspot.com Genre: Memoir ISBN/UPC: 9781605710341 Publisher: Shires Press Reviewed by Carla Cantor for Amazon.com In The Therapist’s New Clothes , Judith D. Schwartz takes us on a journey of self-discovery. Haunted by her grandmother’s suicide, the author has spent most of her adult years trying to resolve emotional problems with her for as long as she can remember. But despite years of self-analysis and psychotherapy, she is unable to hold onto happiness. Her quest to conquer her demons takes on an even greater urgency once she marries and has a child. Desperate for answers, Schwartz seeks out a string of clinicians with whom she forges close, symbiotic relationships as they struggle to piece together the puzzle of her childhood. At the same time, she decides to become a therapist herself. Schwartz’s pursuit of a tranquil psyche unfolds like a detective story, from New York to Chicago to Vermont and back and forth in time. The author moves deftly between early years and present-day life and provides an uncommon peek into the private worlds of therapy sessions and clinician training
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