Articles & Writing

Selected writing on therapist illness.

Across journals and the clinical press, Roberta has written for decades on therapist illness, disclosure, mortality, and continuity of care.

Featured · The Seed of the Book

To Reveal or Not to Reveal

Published in the Psychotherapy Networker, January / February 2020

Roberta's Psychotherapy Networker piece, written a decade after her breast cancer diagnosis, opens the questions that would become the architecture of When the Therapist Is Ill. It explores the relational and ethical terrain of therapist illness, the impulse to protect both client and self, and the slow work of finding what is right to say.

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Selected Publications

A body of writing on the same question.

Long before the book, Roberta was writing on therapist illness, mortality, and the meaning of disclosure. These are selected works across journals and the clinical press.

2023

Consultation with Therapists Who Have a Serious Illness

Book chapter in Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation (Redfern, Ed.), Routledge, 2023.

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2017

Response to "Thinking About Our Work: When the Therapist Becomes Ill"

Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, Winter 2017.

2014

When the Therapist Becomes the Patient

Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2014 (with Judy Delehanty, LCSW).

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2012

Recovering Together

Psychotherapy Networker, March–April 2012.

1989

To Die in Treatment: A Time for Growth, Consolidation, and Healing

Clinical Social Work Journal, Vol. 17, 1989.

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From Writing to a Book

The decade that became When the Therapist Is Ill.

The questions raised in "To Reveal or Not to Reveal" did not stay on the page. Over the decade that followed, they became conversations with colleagues, clients, and supervisors, and eventually a book.

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