STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT

When You Don’t Know Where to Turn

A Self-diagnosing Guide to Counseling and Therapy

(Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 1987: ISBN 0-8092-4829-8)

Steven James Bartlett

Almost everyone comes to a time in life when finding a way out of the maze of problems and emotions of living can feel overwhelming. It is a source of comfort to know that there are effective ways out of personal crises, and that you don’t have to do this alone.

When You Don’t Know Where to Turn is a compassionate, practical guide to many of the major and alternative approaches to counseling and therapy. The book is unique in that it provides comprehensive information needed to choose a specific approach to counseling or psychotherapy that may be most likely, based on studies of psychotherapeutic effectiveness, to be helpful to you. A step-by-step, self-diagnostic algorithm takes into account the nature of your individual problems, the suitability of each form of therapy to your personality and needs, and the average cost, duration, and setting of each.

The book expresses in clear, straight-forward terms the author’s understanding of human problems of living and how best to cope with and treat them. He recognizes that there is a relation of mutual interaction among three terms: a patient’s ability to learn in a psychological context, a therapist’s ability to teach, and the capacity of an approach to therapy to engender in the patient the necessary belief in its effectiveness.

After its publication, the book became a selected title by the Psychology Today and the Psychotherapy Book Clubs.

The author has now made the book freely available as an Open Access eBook publication which is now available as a free download through Project Gutenberg. For a choice of available formats, click here.

For further reading, see the author’s “The Problem of Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness,” available in PDF format by clicking here.