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Becoming a Clinical Psychologist
Personal Stories of Doctoral Training
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2015
Summary
Whether you are thinking about starting therapy, going to graduate school, or are yourself a practicing healer of hearts and minds, Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Personal Stories of Doctoral Training offers a wealth of useful information about today’s training and trainees.. This book is a collection of accounts written by a diverse group of early-career psychologists and doctoral students in their final stages of training. Each of the twelve authors provides a deeply personal, inside perspective on becoming a therapist. Some of the chapters combine qualitative research with the author’s particular experience, while others emphasize the author’s personal journey as s/he moves from novice to clinician. Some of the issues that are covered include the ways in which training affects personal and professional relationships with spouses, friends, peers, faculty and supervisors, and clients; how budding clinicians deal with their own issues and feelings of inadequacy; and how trainees learn to develop the right balance of empathy and detachment in working with clients. Also unique to this collection is the diversity reflected in the contributors, which include an Orthodox Jewish gay man who “came out” during training; a Black woman of African descent who found a home in the psychoanalytic approach; a White man who experienced minority status in his mostly female doctoral program; a bisexual, White woman who had to negotiate misperceptions and judgments as she moved through her clinical training; and a dissident student who came from another profession and found herself at odds with most of her professors and supervisors about the role of trauma in the etiology of mental illness. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist is a compelling read for those both inside and outside the field of psychology.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3992-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3994-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Personal and Professional Integration in a Dual-Oriented Doctoral Program No access
2 Conducting Therapy for the First Time No access
3 Guilt in the Beginning Therapist No access
4 The Novice in the Therapist’s Chair No access
5 Clinical Psychology Training and Romance No access
6 Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students with a History of Eating Disorders No access
7 Life as a Juggler No access
8 Experiences of a “Black Sheep” in a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program No access
9 A Few Good Men No access
10 Notes from a Queer Student’s Graduate Training No access
11 Finding My Place in Psychoanalysis as a Black, Female Student No access
