Premium
Why I became a (brief) psychotherapist
Author(s) -
Hoyt Michael F.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20171
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , psychology , constructive , rubric , zeitgeist , narrative , character (mathematics) , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , developmental psychology , epistemology , mathematics education , literature , sociology , philosophy , process (computing) , art , geometry , mathematics , anthropology , computer science , operating system
The author describes his development as a psychotherapist. He emphasizes both nurture and nature; he indicates that in addition to factors such as family and professional teachers and the zeitgeist, his choice was prefigured by the calling of character. He also discusses some of the influences that led to and confirmed his interest in approaches that fall under the general theoretical rubrics of brief and narrative constructive forms of therapy. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 61: 983–989, 2005.