Review from M. Molofsky at Amazon.com:
Richard Raubolt offers a courageous and sensitive exploration of the trauma shared by both the therapist and the person seeking healing. He dispels the notion of the "objective" therapist observing and reflecting, and instead offers the reality of intense emotional encounter. The therapist allows himself to be traumatized by other's trauma so that they can forge a path together back toward the possibility of recovery. It is Dr. Raubolt's ability to pay attention to someone else's pain, to join in the experience of pain, and to visualize experience that is based as much on strength as it is on terror, that allows for the journey back to authentic presence in the moment. As in his earlier work, "Power Games," Dr. Raubolt offers authenticity as the ultimate human possibility. I am a NYState-licensed psychoanalyst and have nearly 30 years of clinical
experience. Watching Dr. Raubolt reveal his inner process of addressing trauma can be shattering, unnerving, touching, and ultimately reassuring. I have learned a great deal by reading this book.
