On becoming a counselor : a basic guide for non-professional counselors / Eugene Kennedy and Sara C. Charles.

"Portions of this book appeared first in Stress I and Stress II"--T.p. verso.

Emotional involvement -- Hard-bought wisdom -- What other people do to us -- What we do to others -- Our approach to others -- What is it like to be real? -- What can we do for others? -- Questions for counselors -- How do we interview? -- More aspects of interviewing -- The resistant client -- The reluctant client -- The problem of diagnosis -- Diagnosis : goals and resources -- Listening to the story -- The problem of referral -- When can I say what I feel? -- Supportive psychotherapy -- Problems of healthy people -- Translating the languages of inner trouble -- Other dialects of symptomatic language -- Fear and trembling : context for anxiety -- The everyman illness : depression -- Further aspects of depression -- The core of depression -- Introductory notes on personality disorders -- The gift of tongues : the obsessive style -- More on the complex languages of the obsessive style -- The histrionic personality -- More on the histrionic personality -- The deceptive language of the antisocial personality -- The most difficult language of all : that of the seriously disturbed -- The paranoid personality disorder -- Borderline and narcissistic personality disorders --

Marriage counseling -- More on marriage counseling -- Death in our culture -- Suicide risks : who are they? -- Suicide : weighing the risk -- Working with grief and mourning -- Aftermath of grief -- Emergencies : being a steady presence -- Crises : understanding and intervention -- Drugs : use and abuse -- Persons with drinking problems -- Counseling the AIDS patient -- Taking counsel with ourselves.

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