Download The Ultimate MustDo Before and After Seeing a Psychiatrist How to Get the Most Value Out of Your Sessions and Feel Free and Happy Again Eric Davenport Books

Product details Paperback 56 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 12, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 1725515253

The Ultimate MustDo Before and After Seeing a Psychiatrist How to Get the Most Value Out of Your Sessions and Feel Free and Happy Again Eric Davenport Books Reviews

• This is an excellent book.From this book you will learn about how to understand when is the right time to see a therapist,how to choose the right therapist for yourself,what and how to tell about the sessions to your family, friends, colleagues and much more.I hope you must find this book useful.
• This is a well-written book to preparsr you to get the most effectiveness from therapy time. The ideas are well organized and would help you know when and if therapy would make sense for you. Easy to understand.
• This book has tips on deciding if the time is right for therapy, as well as making the most of your therapist's visits.
• This booklet (50 pages long) packs more than most hefty academic tomes. It is a vade mecum, augmented with questionnaires for self-assessment, algorithms for decision making, and personal vignettes from the author's own journey in and with therapy.
  
  The book is organized chronologically. It is a "how-to" manual how to realize that you have a psychological problem that you cannot cope with and are unlikely to solve by yourself; how to decide to attend therapy, choose your therapist, inform your nearest and dearest and your workplace, prepare for the first - and last - sessions, what to ask, expect, and demand from the therapist and a host of other seemingly innocuous but in reality crucial and troubling issues.
  
  The entire process is deconstructed based on insights gleaned from the author's experiences. Excellent practical advice presented both with authority and empathy. Follow the steps and you will be just fine and get the maximum out of this weirdly intimate encounter known as psychotherapy.
  
  I cannot recommend this booklet enough. It should be purchased in bulk by professional associations, academic institutions, patient groups, and social services and distributed far and wide. The only reason I gave it 4 and not 5 stars is the language the booklet could benefit substantially from very heavy editing.
  
  Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self-love Narcissism Revisited"
• I have received this book free for my honest review. First I think this book should be made in a brochure and put in every counseling office. This should be called “a guide to seeking and succeeding in mental health treatment”. The book gives clear step by step roadmap to the processing of why and how to find and maintaining counseling and how to help yourself after therapy. It starts with self-evaluation questions to know if you need therapy, then it moves to preparation before having the first session, follows that with how to ask the right questions and what to expect in treatment. It shows what mostly happens in therapy and provides extra tools of coping that enriches the reader with reflections and bring about caution areas to be aware of during therapy. It engages the reader in the personal experience of the writer without making it about him. It had some repeated parts but it didn’t take away from the valuable information shared. It is simple, clear and easy to understand reading. It is not made for professionals but more for the average Jo to know how to succeed in the journey of recovery. As a mental health counselor I love this book and I highly recommend it for everyone.
• I liked the simple, straight forward approach. Easy for anyone to use in preparation for considering and beginning therapy.
• Author Eric Davenport combines a brief biography with his reasons for writing this book in the Introduction – ‘I don’t remember how it all started. But by 21, when I had just begun my post-graduation in Psychology, I went totally in the shackles of depression. I was cranky all the time and didn’t feel like doing anything at all. Even getting out of bed seemed painful at days. Like many people who encounter depression for the first time, I also denied it. There was a chain of reasons that I held responsible for my condition, but blaming never helped really. Things got even worse when I absconded from the University and isolated myself completely. Those 18 months were the toughest days of my life so far, I knew I was getting into darkness. I spent hours crying in my room, sometimes not even knowing what I was crying for. I lost motivation, I lost hope, I almost lost my career, I lost friends, my heart was broken, I lost sleep - I was almost sure this is where my life ends. After endless discussions and endless efforts of my family and friends, I finally agreed to see a psychologist and discuss what I am going through. My therapy was not very prolonged, it was 20 sessions that went on for a period of about 3 months. But what I learned in those 3 months literally changed the way I saw life. I never realized when exactly I started gaining back my motivation and positivity, it was a smooth sail throughout. I could never have imagined the transformation that I went through - by the time my sessions terminated, I went into a completely different thinking and feeling zone. To start with, here are some of the things psychotherapy had taught me Recognizing that the problem lies within my head, Accepting that it is ‘okay’ to not feel good all the time, Understanding that life has to go on even after all the disappointments and fears, Respecting the efforts others had put for me, and Discovering the power of effective communication This book is an endeavor to reach out to all who are on the verge of starting a therapy, or have just started it, or still juggling with confusion about whether or not to see a therapist. In the following chapters, we will embark upon some of the most essential tips that you need to know before and after seeing a therapist.’
  
  This is a personal account, from the author that is full of sage advice and suggestions on how to start therapy, work with the therapist and ultimately end therapy a changed person with responsibilities for self-care.
  
  Eric presents 8 signs that you need to see a therapist (accompanied with a chart to discover self-evaluation with scoring and tips), the TOT (Talk Overcome Trust) ideal, tips for choosing the right therapist for you, diminishing fear associated with Self-expression, how to prepare for therapy (financially, goals, etc), scheduling the first session, with tips on behavior with the therapist, what to expect from the first session, things you should never ask a therapist, and overcoming the barriers of communication.
  
  Each phase of therapy is well examined and the tips Eric offers are well-considered. This is a valuable and practical manual for anyone considering therapy. Grady Harp, August 18
  This book is free to borrow form Unlimited