Possibly good to those with a passing interest in psychotherapy, but not a great comic and not a great read. appreciated the process tracking, thinks she does it the best amongst all the other authors of psychotherapy tales i’ve read so far. And I suppose, grudgingly, I have to acknowledge that when the princess could not get a wink of sleep on her fifteen mattresses because of the pea hidden under the first mattress, it was real discomfort she was feeling.

She was born and raised in the wilds of North London and still lives there with two lovely homosexual housemates and a terrible cat. But if, as Freud said, it can turn hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness, as he thought was its raison d'etre, then fair dinkum. I think its perhaps meant as a light-hearted teaching tool to those in the fields of counselling/psychotherapy.

Although therapy is a serious subject and something many more of us could benefit from embracing without shame or embarrassment, there is nothing remotely stodgy about this book. For BBC4 she has written and presented: Truth Lies and Love Bites, a history of Agony Aunts, and How To Be A Surrealist with Philippa Perry. Having said that I did like that Philippa acknowledges that the counsellor could make mistakes and correct herself so that counsellors are not perfect but that its important to be real and genuine. She lives in London and Sussex with her husband, the artist Grayson Perry, and enjoys gardening, cooking, parties, walking, tweeting, and watching telly.

In this case, it's addressing the underlying sources of a successful barrister's inexplicable kleptomania.It does a great job illustrating how we often say one thing and mean another and it really allows readers to get inside the mind of not only the patient, but the therapist as well. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Patricia Phillips practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy (think Freud here, guys), but is not a perfect therapist. James: "I am beginning to resonate with the idea that an unacknowledged feeling can rule me, whereas I can have more control over the ones I know about.

However, I can imagine that for therapy students, such a book could be a great introduction to the process of psychotherapy, and spark off interesting debates. Told in a witty and thought-provoking manner, each engagingly illustrated scene is accompanied by deft commentary. She wrote this book because she wanted to describe what life can be like as a therapist and as a client. Sedikit banyak membantuku meraba-raba apa yang terjadi di masa kecil dan bagaimana dampaknya bagiku sekarang. This is a graphic novella about one particular psychotherapy experience from the point of view of both parties.Maybe I would've expected it to be more inclusive of the kinds of questions raised during therapy, but the limitation was imposed by the anecdote, which is understandable, but makes it fall short on certain accounts. And even though the comic is drawn only in black and white, the art is well done and keeps the reader's attention.