Becoming a Therapist What Do I Say, and Why?

This book has been replaced by Becoming a Therapist, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4946-7.
 

Suzanne Bender, MD, is a Staff Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she works with children and adolescents, and Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed an adult psychiatry residency and child psychiatry fellowship at MGH. Dr. Bender received the MGH Psychiatry Department's Psychodynamic Writing Award in 1998. She also has a private practice, specializing in psychotherapy with adolescents and adults.

Edward Messner, MD, is a Senior Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the United States Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. After his military service, Dr. Messner's psychiatric training consisted of 2 years of adult residency at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, a year of child fellowship at the Thom Clinic in Boston, and then 2 years as a clinical and research fellow at MGH. He also completed psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. During Dr. Messner's career in the highly rated MGH Psychiatry Department, he has earned the Teacher of the Year award six times.