The mummy at the dining room table : eminent therapists reveal their most unusual cases and what they teach us about human behavior /

More than thirty therapists, including Albert Ellis, Linda Love, Kim Berg, and Scott Miller, share their most unusual and interesting cases to offer provocative insights into the human mind and the mysteries of human behavior.

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Other Authors: Kottler, Jeffrey A., Carlson, Jon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2003.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1
  • The Man Who Wanted His Nose Cut Off /
  • Jeffrey A. Kottler
  • 7
  • 2
  • The Mummy at the Dining Room Table /
  • Jon Carlson
  • 21
  • 3
  • Buzzy Bee's Oral Fixation /
  • Frank Pittman
  • 32
  • 4
  • An Oedipal Dilemma /
  • Arnold Lazarus
  • 45
  • 5
  • The Urge to Eat from Garbage Cans /
  • William Glasser
  • 55
  • 6
  • The Penis That Needed Permission from the Church /
  • Domeena Renshaw
  • 66
  • 7
  • Therapy with a Gopher Snake and a Horned Lizard /
  • Violet Oaklander
  • 74
  • 8
  • Getting Rid of Old Junk /
  • Harville Hendrix
  • 84
  • 9
  • The Terminator Finds Himself on a Mental Ward /
  • Scott Miller
  • 95
  • 10
  • They Learned to Live with Ghosts /
  • Insoo Kim Berg
  • 105
  • 11
  • The Woman Who Should Have Been Depressed /
  • Michael Yapko
  • 115
  • 12
  • The Woman Who Hated Everyone and Everything /
  • Albert Ellis
  • 126
  • 13
  • The Medicine Man Who Never Had a Vision /
  • Bradford Keeney
  • 136
  • 14
  • The Woman Who Hanged Herself to Check Her Husband's Response Time /
  • Susan Johnson
  • 147
  • 15
  • The Hip-Nose Doctor Finds the Michael Jackson Tickets /
  • Ernest Rossi
  • 157
  • 16
  • The Lawyer from Hell /
  • Arthur Freeman
  • 166
  • 17
  • Reconstructing the Jigsaw Puzzle of a Meter Man's Memory /
  • Robert A. Neimeyer
  • 178
  • 18
  • An Emergency Hypnosis to Solve the Crime at the Burger Joint /
  • Pat Love
  • 191
  • 19
  • Beauty and the Beast /
  • Samuel Gladding
  • 199
  • 20
  • The Lie That Hid in His Back /
  • Gay Hendricks
  • 208
  • 21
  • The Client Who Wanted His Therapist to Be Someone Else /
  • Howard Kirschenbaum
  • 217
  • 22
  • The Bride Wore a Tuxedo, the Groom Wore a Gown /
  • Joel Bergman
  • 228
  • 23
  • Recovering from Recovered Memories /
  • David Scharff
  • 238
  • 24
  • Panic Disorder from Sewer Grates, Amusement Parks, and Sex with Ministers /
  • Howard Rosenthal
  • 249
  • 25
  • The Eighty-Two-Year-Old Prostitute /
  • Jay Haley
  • 257
  • 26
  • Saved by a Ghost /
  • Stephen Lankton
  • 264
  • 27
  • He'll Always Be Black /
  • James F.T. Bugental
  • 275
  • 28
  • "I Wouldn't Mind Being That Guy in the Mirror" /
  • Michael Mahoney
  • 279
  • 29
  • The Three-Year-Old Who Was an Alcoholic /
  • Laura S. Brown
  • 291
  • 30
  • Every Parent's Worst Nightmare /
  • Donald Meichenbaum
  • 299
  • 31
  • The Third Sexual Identity /
  • Peggy Papp
  • 305
  • 32
  • The Bird Colonel Who Turned into an Elephant /
  • Len Sperry
  • 316.