Therapist as Novelist and/or Jazz Improviser

  • Douglas G. Flemons

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

    Abstract

    Every time we walk into the therapy room, our clients confront us with impossible situations and painful conundrums. No wonder, then, that so many of us retreat to the seeming safety of some form of recipe-focused therapy. Faced with the frightening uncertainty of not knowing in advance how to hep, we grasp for the comfortable certainty of an algorithm—a step-by-step formula that tells you what you should do and when and how you should do it.

    Original languageAmerican English
    Title of host publicationHeroic Clients, Heroic Agencies: Partners for Change
    StatePublished - Jan 1 2001

    Publication series

    NameHeroic Clients, Heroic Agencies: Partners for Change

    Keywords

    • clinical adaptations
    • family therapists
    • jazz improviser
    • novelist
    • therapists

    Disciplines

    • Arts and Humanities
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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