Larry Brooks, PHD

DR. LARRY BROOKS PUBLICATIONS

The following essays have appeared in my column “From the Editor’s Couch, ”  in the GAMPHA Newsletter, a publication of the Glendale Area Mental Health Professionals Association.

These articles cover a wide range of topics such as: the nature of psychological change, intersubjectivity, counter-transference, a model for understanding professional identity development in therapists, the psychology of men, and psychological reactions to trauma. They were published over the last 10 years.  If you are interested in any of the articles please contact me and I will send you a copy.

• (Oct/Nov 2006) “The Wounded-healer a Divided Self: A model of     Professional Identity Development”
• (May/June 2004) “Psychotherapy as Countertransference”
• (March/April 2004) “How to Read Something You Don’t Like And
  Get Along With Someone You Disagree With”
• (Jan/Feb 2004) “The Professional/Personal Identity of a Therapist: A Story
  in Multiple Parts.”
• (Nov/Dec 2003) “Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychoanalytic
  Beliefs.”
• (August/September 2003) “The Therapist’s Professional/Personal Identity:
  a Divided Self.”
• (May/june 2003) “Countertransference of Everyday Life.”
• (March/April 2003 ) “The Intersubjectivist’s Dilemma.”
• (Jan/Feb 2003) “The Unknowable Self.”
• (Nov/Dec 2002) “The Development of a Psychotherapist.”
• (August/September 2002) “Eclecticism Then and Now.”
• (March/April 2002 ) “My Worst Psychotherapy Session or How
  I Was Trapped in a Projective Identification.”
• (Jan/Feb 2002) “Trauma and Fundamentalism”
• (Nov/Dec 2001) “Ground Zero”
• (Sept/Oct 2001) “The Wounded Healer: Dialogue  Between Actual and
  Optimal Self”
• (July/Aug 2001) “The Growth of a Psychotherapist”
• May/June 2001) “Boys to Men”
• (March/April 2001) “Divorce Reconfigured: A Review of Judith
  Wallerstein’s  Landmark Study of Divorce.”
• (January/February 2001) “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There.”
• (September/October 2000) “Zero Tolerance is a State of Mind.”
• (August/July 2000) “What Do Men Want: what do Men Need?
  Covert Depression in Men.”
• (May/June 2000) “Thoughts About Mental Health Month”
• (March/April 2000) “The More We Change, the More We
  Remain the Same.”

Note: The above articles were published in “From the Editor’s Couch,” a column that appeared in The Glendale Areas Mental Health Professionals Association (GAMHPA) Newsletter.