Therapy's Best (By Howard Rosenthal) - Part V Summary

* Accomplished therapists are modest.

* Accomplished therapists seemingly enjoy enhanced longevity.

* Accomplished therapists enjoyed, repected, and valued their education although they often went in totally new directions after graduation.

* When accomplished therapists created their novel ideas or systems of therapy, they were initially ostracized by their peers.

* Accomplished therapists truly believe in their strategies even when they are diametrically opposed to other experts.

* Accomplished therapists often became famous or achieved uncommon notoriety after the publication of a highly successful book.
Robert Alberti - Your Perfect Right/Write; Albert Ellis - Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy; Guide to Rational Living; Ray & Dorothy Becvar - Marriage Counseling; Richard Bolles - What Color Is Your Parachute?; Ray Corsini - Current Psychotherapies; Sam T. Gladding - Counseling: The Comprehensive Profession; William Glasser - Reality Therapy; Muriel James - Born to Win; Jeffrey Kottler & Jon Carlson - Mummy at the Dining Room Table; Edwin Shneidman - Deaths of Man

* Accomplished therapists often don't take their theories as literal as academicians.

* Accomplished therapists position themselves in the therapeutic marketplace.

* Since accomplished therapists are often highly critical of rival modes of treatment they are only selectively eclectic or integrative in their approach.

* Accomplished therapists often didn't set out to be an expert in their particular area of expertise.