Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 100
EAN: 9780553278323
ISBN: 0553278320
Label: Bantam USA
Manufacturer: Bantam USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: January 01, 1920
Publisher: Bantam USA
Sales Rank: 34852
Studio: Bantam USA

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Rating: - Expected More
This is an okay book for the psychological novice. But even to the novice the author presents his case pretentiously and disorderly.

What's worse, the persona of the author is very present in the text, in every anecdote, in every point which makes it hard to seperate the author from the points he is trying to make. - If you happen to like his persona you might give this book a higher rating, yet he rubbed me the wrong way; he struck me as an unrepentant lightweight with a Louis XIV complex. ... Read More

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Rating: - An Antidote to Therapy
I work as a speechwriter and I love this type of book because it's full of quotable stuff.

Lines like, 'You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.'

or, 'You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who your are and take your chances.'

He illustrates his theories using some of the Great Classics of Western Literature - Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Kafka's The Castle, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Rating: - Excellent comments on the process of psychotherapy.
Sheldon B. Kopp is an experienced pyschotherapist and has written a very insightful commentary on the process and journey of self realization as well as relating it to many other interesting myths, stories, and philosophies.

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Rating: - Literate discussion of the freedom born of self-knowledge.
The subtitle, "The Pilgramage of Psychotherapy Patients," belies the essence of this highly literate hymn to authenticity and self-governance: each of us must look within to find our own answers. Drawing from the Bible, the I Ching, Siddhartha, Jung and too many others to name, the author urges that living fully requires us to let go of concepts of fairness, perfection and control and embrace the uncertainty and ambiguity of our journey. A liberating, thought provoking paean to autonomy, self acceptance ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent insights on the client-therapist relationship
Just as Rogers was said to have taken the patient off the couch, Sheldon Kopp takes the therapist off his/her pedestal. A must-read for anyone who has ever struggled with the conflictual aims of the therapist and client in a therapeutic process. Unfortunately the latter chapters tend to be more autobiographical and the book loses some of it's impact.

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