Marie Adams is a writer and practising psychotherapist. She is on staff at the Metanoia Institute on the Professional Doctorate programme, and is a visiting lecturer at a number of other training institutes, including the Institute For Arts in Therapy and Education. During her career Marie has had a long association with the BBC; for many years she was a producer on the Today Programme and, more recently, a consulting psychotherapist to news and documentary staff. Her book, The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist, is now a standard text on counselling and psychotherapy training courses throughout the country.
Therapists are often expected to be immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. This book serves to demonstrate that this is certainly not the case: they are no more resistant to... (more)