Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

Part 1. Setting the stage -- Part 2. Therapist self-care models -- Part 3. Beyond the therapy room -- Part 4. Ethical issues in self-care.

"There is a soul weariness that comes with caring. From daily doing business with the handiwork of fear. Sometimes it lives at the edges of one's life, brushing against hope and barely making its presence known. At other times, it comes crashing in, overtaking one with its vivid images of another's terror with its profound demands for attention; nightmares, strange fears, and generalized hopelessness. When i first tried to write about this phenomenon, i looked toward the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder for guidance. For acceptability, like any good scholar, i tried to build a case for the extension of a known phenomenon to justify the existence of one that i believed existed but for which there was yet very little quantitative evidence. Nonetheless, the phenomenon was both more and less than the extension of the posttraumatic stress disorder diagnosis" (tomado de la fuente).