The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us about Human Behavior

Langs, Robert, American Journal of Psychotherapy

JEFFREY A. KOTTER AND JON CARLSON: The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2003, 325 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-7879-6541-3.

The structure of this book is quite straightforward. The authors traveled far and wide to interview 32 prominent psychotherapists, asking them to recount the therapy they conducted with their most unusual patient. The average chapter is about ten pages long and each describes the dialogue between the therapist and the authors; describes the emotional problems suffered by one or more of their most memorable patients; recalls how the treatment went; …

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Publication information: Article title: The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us about Human Behavior. Contributors: Langs, Robert - Author. Journal title: American Journal of Psychotherapy. Volume: 57. Issue: 3 Publication date: January 1, 2003. Page number: 415. © American Journal of Psychotherapy 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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