title: A meditation on life, love and being a therapist: it's not what I expected.
abstract: Volumes have been written speculating how therapy expands the lives of clients. Far less is understood about the impact of doing clinical work on the therapist's own life. In the process of the therapeutic journey, not only do clients contact buried grief, but therapists too, inevitably revisit their own buried darkness, offering them ongoing opportunities for growth and renewal.
authors.affiliation: American Eating Disorder Center, Long Island, New York.
authors.forename: Judith Ruskay
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rabinor
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003379:Countertransference; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D008149:Love; D019122:Meditation / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations