Hearing Voices: Reflections of a Psychology Intern

This work memoir covers a year in the author's life -- after he got his PhD, during his internship of doing psychotherapy under supervision before he could become a real psychologist. He worked at a public, Harvard-affiliated hospital and tried to help some extremely dysfunctional individuals. There are a lot of memoirs out there about the same thing, but I think Dr. Haas's is as good as any of them. He is honest about his failings and his uncertainties, and has real empathy for the dreadful suffering of his patients. And his description of his supervisor's reaction when he was late for a session was absolutely hilarious. Freud would have been proud.

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