Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D., a professor at the University of California, is the author of Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory and Final Analysis, among others.
Talking About Therapy is not only fun to read, it should be useful to anyone in therapy or thinking about being in therapy. One thing for sure: credentials mean next to nothing and going by our gut feeling is hard when our guts are in turmoil. Someone ought to build upon this scrupulously honest book and reveal even more of what patients say about their experiences, not what their therapists say they say.
A. Lee Fritchler, Ph.D., former President of Dickinson
Comarow and Chescheir had an interesting and unique thought. Why not evaluate psychotherapy through the words and experiences of those who had at some point in their lives undergone threatment? In Talking About Therapy, 52 patients tell it like it was and is. This is a fascinating narrative, rich in experience and detail. It is great reading for the layperson and the professional. Great therapy for all of us!
