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Volume 358:1414-1415 March 27, 2008 Number 13

The Resilient Clinician

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By Robert J. Wicks. 255 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-531697-1.

Countless books on how to be a psychotherapist include sections on coping with stress and burnout, and there exists a growing literature that is completely devoted to this modern affliction. One might reasonably wonder whether there is a need for yet another book on therapist burnout. The answer is, quite simply, yes. Robert Wicks's The Resilient Clinician is a short and powerful guidebook aimed at a specific population of therapists: those spiritual travelers who employ concepts such as mindfulness and who practice positive psychology. For this substantial and increasing readership, Wicks's most recent work becomes a poetic aid for coping . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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