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Summary: a non-rider's guide to the equestrian arts
Review: Those who have read Wilber know that he writes with marvelous clarity. If every help manual in the world were written in such a style, we could all follow the directions, no doubt about it. Even granted the Wilberian preoccupation with spatial metaphors: up, down, around, transcend and include.What I question are the credentials re: "therapy." One could definitely make a case that many of the best "therapists" never get licensed at all and don't have impressive credentials. At the same time, however, it's strange to read suggestions about therapy or counseling without seeing any of the author's background in these disciplines. Was Wilber trained by therapists? Has he actually sat with clients and received supervision from therapists? Listened as a group of colleagues told him about his own countertransference issues? I don't know. Perhaps he has. I hope so. Because work on yourself isn't enough to make you knowledgeable about psychotherapy--just as meditations on the nature of horseness don't make you an expert on dressage. Wilber does some of the homework in terms of theory, but the real grist, the give-and-take of actual case histories, actual in-session learnings, knowledge of the analytic literature, accounts of the mistakes all trainees make in session, notes on dealing with fighting couples or self-destructive families: where is it? Because without it, degree or no degree, we are scarcely in a position to write adequately about psychotherapy, let alone recommend modifications to how it is performed by seasoned practitioners who every day get their hands and hearts dirty with genuine human conflict and tragedy, illness and death.
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