Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy offers a compilation of mature therapeutic insights that are valuable in achieving a better way of living. It describes a unique experiment in applied psychology whereby a group of individuals overcame a wide range of defensive behaviors and transformed their lives. The book documents the knowledge they acquired along the way and offers corrective suggestions that are based on their experiences. Most important, the authors indicate how the insights achieved can be applied by therapists in clinical practice. This book is a comprehensive guide for helping professionals and others people who are interested in personal development, deepening friendships, sustaining intimacy in couple relationships, achieving success in the workplace and developing healthy child-rearing practices. It points out the value of leading a life marked by adventure and recreation, transcendent goals, and spiritual exploration and offers fresh views on the past, present, and future of psychotherapy.

Educational Objectives

• Develop a greater awareness of ones own defenses.
• Identify and develop the abilities to lower clients’defenses.
• Identify the skills necessary to discern if clients are accepting responsibility for their own personal growth.
• Assist clients in experiencing increased vulnerability and intimacy in their lives.
• Help clients become less self critical and develop healthier inner voices.

Syllabus / Course Instructions

• The Course consists of reading the selected book, successfully completing an online posttest and filling out a course evaluation.
• The book is not included. It must be purchased separately. We have supplied a link to Amazon.com for your convenience.
• Purchasing your course will give you access to both a printable copy of the test and an online version. Print the test to use as a companion as you read the book and answer the questions.
• You cannot exit the online test once you begin, so have your answers available.