“Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist”
By: Carl Whitaker

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It wasn’t easy choosing a book. I browsed the library and found a few titles that sounded interesting (The title has to appeal to me before I decide to read a book). So after scanning the pages of some of my choices, I finally decided on “Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist” by Carl Whitaker. After reading the preface, the book sounded like something I would enjoy. Prof. Whitaker talks about his trials and tribulations of venturing between being a psychologist and a psychotherapist, as well as being a husband and father of six. He tells many stories of the different environments that he encountered, as well as the different people with different diseases. I’m hoping this book will give me a greater outlook in the world of psychology. With Prof. Whitaker having been in so many different professions within the psychology field, I get to read about his different experiences and the various methods he used in treating his patients. So far I feel like I can relate to Prof. Whitaker because he describes how sometimes he felt he was the crazy one and not his patients. He goes on to describe how he learns as much from them as they do from him. This book is opening my eyes to the world of psychology and I hope to have a better idea of the field by the time I am finished.

Summary
My review of “Midnight Musings…” will begin with a look into Whitaker’s biography, a few of his ideals on marriage, and then to his Experimental Family Therapy. During the course of my review I have inserted some of Dr. Whitaker’s quotes. I did this because you cannot put into words some of the things he has said so I just quoted him instead. Carl Whitaker grew up on an isolated dairy farm in northern New York. He had no one to play with during his childhood, but he always had plenty of work to do. Normal work