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Title: From a client's point of view
Review: This seems to me to be a pretty standard exposition of how to choose a therapist. It may work for an average client. The author agrees that therapists are different in their success with therapy, but as with many another on the topic does not really know why. What does one therapist do in therapy that another does not? Why does one therapist actively listen, immediately aware of his or her own thoughts and feelings during a session and able to make use of this awareness, and another just goes on "instinct" without being particularly self-aware? This can be the crucial difference in therapy. It allows a therapist to let a client be entirely separate from the therapist, and lets him or herself hear the experience of the client, an experience which may be very much more extreme than the average person's -- and this factor is almost never discussed.
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