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Gift of Therapy, The: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (P.S.)

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A heightened sensibility to existential issues deeply influences the nature of the relationship of the therapist and patient and affects every therapy session. Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is not a substitute for life but a dress rehearsal for life, In other words, though psychotherapy requires a close relationship, the relationship is not an end - it is a means to an end.” You’re free to make a decision, but that usually means not making some other decision which means that you’re willingly cutting yourself off from other possibilities. For both the professional and the lay reader....In 85 short chapters, [Yalom] presents little pearls of ideas shaped from 35 years in practice....Yalom’s latest is essential.”— Library Journal

Anyone who wants a glimpse into the highest level of psychotherapy would enjoy this book. Who would not enjoy this book? Pamenu, tuomkart paliko didelį įspūdį kaip sklandus praktiškų patarimų ir įžvalgų rinkinys, bet įtariu, kad šįkart iš knygos pasiėmiau gerokai daugiau. Yalom is very human with his clients, even in the places where many of us would pretend to greater perfection than we could ever have. He is generally described as an existential psychotherapist and asks his clients to create real relationships with him and others, face the finiteness of life, and accept responsibility for how they are living – “Even if ninety-nine percent of the bad things that happen to you is someone else’s fault, I want to look at the other one percent—the part that is your responsibility. We have to look at your role, even if it’s very limited, because that’s where I can be of most help” (pp. 139-140).Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.” First of all, you need to try hard not to isolate yourself from others: therapists are sometimes just too solitary creatures; I didn't understand that asking patients to be your therapist, analyzing their dreams, trying to be their friend, insisting that the patient-therapist relationship resembles all the rest of the patient's relationships, insisting that there's always an interpersonal conflict with a subconscious nature that is at the roots of one's emotional disturbance, using your own feelings about the client as a compass, etc. could serve a therapeutic purpose.

The Gift of Therapy is not Irvin Yalom’s best book – if you want to read that one, look for Existential Psychotherapy – but it may be the one which will endure the longest.Use dreams pragmatically: first master some dream navigational skills, then pay attention to the narrative and then pillage and loot through them! Hazards and Privileges (84 – 85) Having reached his 70th year, Yalom (psychiatry, Stanford U.) worries about where the next generation of effective psychotherapists will be trained, noting that the big medical corporations are primarily interested in pushing medicine. He advises students against sectarianism and suggests a therapeutic pluralism in which effective interventions are drawn from several different therapy approaches. He does not include an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Lying on the Couch, The Schopenhauer Cure, When Nietzsche Wept, as well as several classic textbooks on psychotherapy, including The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, considered the foremost work on group therapy. The Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University, he divides his practice between Palo Alto, where he lives, and San Francisco, California. First published in 2001 – sometime around the author’s 70 th birthday – The Gift of Therapy, as stated by its blurb, is “the culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than forty-five years in clinical practice.” When in need, systematically collect the history of your patient, including interviewing his/her significant other and exploring previous therapy;

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