ktscotts 's review for:

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate

4.0

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This story and the author’s way of telling it was amazing. Knowing the timeline of when it took place (early 2000s) I think her experience and the psychiatrist’s approach at that time normalized therapy for her and others in her groups. That being said, the psychiatrist sounds wacky and unethical. Glad it worked for this client but I’d be interested to hear stories from clients who were harmed or had less than positive experiences with this approach. The memoir is written like a story so she might have skipped over some of the key informed consent stuff that would make it a little more okay. Again, in early 2000s evidence based practice in psychotherapy was a bit less of a priority I believe. Either way, really enjoyable read!