Winner
Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist
Author: Michael Alcee
Published: 2022
How is your book helping others?
The book is geared towards changing the way therapists see themselves--teaching them to be both both scientists AND artists--and the way the public (and therapists) conceptualize mental health--as the art and science of reading and working with the changes. My hope is that the book will be both a call-to-action to therapists of all levels and backgrounds and will forward a totally new vision for the public's view of mental health. Filled with movie, music, literature, and cinematic case examples, the book is written so that even a layperson could learn what to look for in the therapist of their dreams and even a veteran therapist will come away inspired how to integrate the science within the art.