Choice: The Doctor’s Guide to Choice-Driven Psychotherapy

By James Greenstone

This book is intended for psychotherapy patients. It may also be a good read for those looking for some self-help. Here is allowed the opportunity to examine one's life from different vantage points without abandoning their current point-of-view. Self-awareness is the key to understanding one's problematic behavior, and also is often the biggest barrier to self-understanding. Utilizing this material in the psychotherapy process will allow clients to review what is accomplished during therapy sessions, to examine the principles discussed, and to form questions for future discussions with the therapist. Personal responsibility for one's own actions is stressed throughout along with ways in which to understand and to make decisions about those actions. Nothing happens by accident or is changed or corrected by accident.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543975864

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© Copyright 2020. Dr. James L. Greenstone

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Do not copy without written permission of the author.

Print ISBN: 978-1-54397-585-7

eBook ISBN: 978-1-54397-586-4

Table of Contents

Dedication

Epigraph

Guiding Principle

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Purpose of this Doctor’s Guide

Elements of Personal Responsibility

Narrative of Sherif’s Twelve Principle of Social Interaction

Take a Look

Schrodinger’s Cat and Your Life

Epilogue

References

Author Biography

Highlights & Notes

Dedication

Choice is dedicated to those who will choose to benefit from the choices that they have in their own life.

Further, it is dedicated to all of those who have influenced my professional development and my choice-driven approach to psychotherapy. These include, but are not limited to

Dr. Edward S. Rosenbluh

Dr. W. Rodney Fowler

Dr. Sharon C. Leviton

Dr. Lillian Solomon

Dr. John Enright

Dr. Robert J. Resnik

Dr. Ed Rydman

Dr. Haim Ginott

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Dr. Joseph Knapp

Dr. Fritz Perls

Dr. Muzafer Sherif

Dr. Henry Platt

Dr. David Isch

Epigraph

Guiding Principle

of The Doctor’s Approach to Psychotherapy

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul. Ashleigh Brilliant

Prologue

"You may not consider this when you first step into a therapist’s (my) office, but our (my) goal is to stop seeing you. In the bittersweet way that parents raise their kids not to need them anymore, therapists (I) work to lose patients, not retain them, because the successful outcome is that you feel (and do) better and leave. But occasionally we (I) have to say goodbye sooner.

The reason is what makes therapy challenging we (I) need to get people (you) to see themselves (yourself) in ways they (you) normally choose not to. Of course, therapists (I) aim to be supportive, but our (my) role is to understand your perspective – not necessarily to endorse it. It is up to patients (you) to take a good look at their (your) actions.

What therapists (I) need from our patients (you), then, is trust that we