Making of a Psychotherapist

Symington, Neville

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Personal Qualities -- The traditions and practice of psychotherapy -- The psychotherapist's education -- The analyst's inner task -- Imagination and curiosity of mind -- Mental pain and moral courage -- Self-esteem in analyst and patient -- Transference -- Professional Dilemmas -- Modes of cure in psychotherapy -- The seductive psychotherapist -- Mimesis in narcissistic patients -- Narcissism -- An analysis of greed -- The origins of rage and aggression -- The autonomy of the self -- A question of conscience -- Psychotherapy and religion