Book Review: A Shining Affliction by Annie G. Rogers
Title: A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
Author: Annie G. Rogers
Published: Penguin, 2008 (1996)
Rating: 5 of 5
Page Count: 335
Total Page Count: 534,505
Text Number: 1957
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chthonic_cassandra, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: While treating a troubled child during her PhD internship, the author becomes mired in memories of her own traumatic childhood. Therapy is a chain of interconnections, patient to therapist to therapist's therapist, and Rogers insists that these relationships must be two-way in order to be effective and sincere, despite that they're intentionally stymied or curtailed in most therapeutic practice. But this is more experiential than didactic: it sits within events as they unfold, proactively interpreting them in a way which is intimate, evocative, and surprisingly concise. I liked this, I found it compelling and nuanced and compassionate; it also gave me uneasy, hopeless feelings about why I don't do therapy—maybe that's inevitable.
Author: Annie G. Rogers
Published: Penguin, 2008 (1996)
Rating: 5 of 5
Page Count: 335
Total Page Count: 534,505
Text Number: 1957
Read Because: mentioned by
chthonic_cassandra, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County LibraryReview: While treating a troubled child during her PhD internship, the author becomes mired in memories of her own traumatic childhood. Therapy is a chain of interconnections, patient to therapist to therapist's therapist, and Rogers insists that these relationships must be two-way in order to be effective and sincere, despite that they're intentionally stymied or curtailed in most therapeutic practice. But this is more experiential than didactic: it sits within events as they unfold, proactively interpreting them in a way which is intimate, evocative, and surprisingly concise. I liked this, I found it compelling and nuanced and compassionate; it also gave me uneasy, hopeless feelings about why I don't do therapy—maybe that's inevitable.