Suzi Naiburg PhD, LICSW
Reviews
"A good writer who goes for the jugular, I mean the heart. Suzi Naiburg has a real feel for what writing is and can do, a blessing not all share."
Michael Eigen, The Birth of Experience
"Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose is a rare find, a real gem that combines wisdom for writers and editors. Its multilayered analytic approach will assist would-be authors to find their voice and helps us all deepen our readings of clinical prose. Dr. Naiburg is a gifted teacher whose wealth of experience in guiding others is conveyed on every page. As an editor, I find her insights invaluable."
Joe Cambray, Synchrononicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe. Past president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology,former US editor of The Journal of Analytical Psychology
"Suzi Naiburg’s book brings clinical writing alive as art and lived experience and offers a stunning understanding of what it takes to create good clinical prose. Her book is a splash of clear cold water on the familiar landscape of arid, artless clinical writing. Dr. Naiburg is a rare reader of clinical works, attentive to the word-by-word decisions writers make. Her skillful exegesis of a range of styles and structures invites readers to attend to nuances of language and appreciate how clinicians relive particular moments with their patients that cannot be summed up but only evoked through the art of that particular writer. Her writing exercises invite spontaneity and considered choices, creativity and constraint, micro decisions and macro structures of organization. This book is a vital resource for anyone interested in clinical writing, or for that matter, anyone interested in truly compelling writing."
Annie G. Rogers, A Shinning Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy and The Unsayable:The Hidden Language of Trauma. Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology, Hampshire College