The Good Enough Therapist: Futility, Failure, and Forgiveness in Treatment - Paperback

by Brad E. Sachs (Author)

The Good Enough Therapist is a guidebook--not an instruction manual--written for beginning, intermediate, and experienced clinicians. It encourages readers to explore, accept, and embrace their flaws and failings in a way that promotes effective treatment as well as personal growth. It focuses both on craft and process--craft related to the tools, the strategies, and the tactics of treatment, and process related to the session-by-session struggle to implement these tools in ways that speak to and illuminate the experience of living and struggling as a human being. It does not endeavor to transmit a method, but a sensibility, a way of being with patients that results in a deeper recognition of the therapist's, and the patient's, vulnerability, resilience, imagination, and integrity.

Author Biography

Brad E. Sachs, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and adults, couples and families, and the best-selling author of numerous books on child and family development for both general and clinical readership, including Family-Centered Treatment with Struggling Young Adults, The Good Enough Child, and The Good Enough Teen. A published poet, composer, and musician, he maintains a private practice in Columbia, Maryland, where he and his and wife, psychiatrist Dr. Karen Meckler, raised their three adult children and currently enjoy visits with their grandchildren.