Early Recollections: Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy

This book reviews the extensive literature on early recollections and organizes various interpretive systems of evaluating early memories. The practitioner will find specific and detailed guidelines for administering and interpreting early recollections to help integrate these memories into counseling and psychotherapy. Following a carefully articulated contextual approach to early recollections, which synthesizes three perspectives - subjective, interpersonal and objective - come suggestions for using early recollections in the counseling process and a full-length case study to explicate the model and demonstrate the utility of using this approach.

Arthur J. Clarke, Ed.D., is a Professor and Coordinator ofthe Counseling and Development Program at St. LawrenceUniversity in Canton, New York. He is an editorial boardmember of the Journal of Counseling and Development andthe author of Defense Mechanisms in the CounselingProcess.