He also writes a third kind of book, one where he turns deep thinking about philosophy and the questions which surely we all return to, across our lives, the attempt to understand primal ‘whys’ into the form of dramatic narrative. Yalom also, as to some extent here, writes books which are perhaps a little less geared towards the lay-person, but which might serve as useful guide or instruction to anyone engaged in holding any kind of therapeutic space, whether one to one, or with groups And the connection itself will shape outcomes. The therapist, though they must strive to understand their own subjective agenda within the client/practitioner encounter, can never be a robotic observer, but always brings themselves into the field of encounter with the client, as much as the client brings themselves into that field. Yalom inhabits the understanding that what is happening in the psychotherapeutic encounter is what happens in any human encounter – relationship. These do not read like dry, clinical, case histories. He has written books which tell the stories (anonymised, given narrative structure, and with permission) or particular encounters with patients over his decades of practice.

Once we make a diagnosis, we tend to selectively inattend to aspects of the patient that do not fit into that particular diagnosis Or, as he simply, profoundly says :Ī diagnosis limits vision it diminishes ability to relate to the other as a person. He is a philosophical thinker, rather than one who focuses on human ‘lesions’ or pathologies. Now in his late 80s, Yalom inspires not just those who practice psychotherapy, counselling, psychoanalysis or psychiatry. I admire the wisdom and compassion expressed in the writing and the thinking behind the writing of existential humanistic psychotherapist Irvin Yalom OL2680431W Page_number_confidence 88.18 Pages 298 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210702155520 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 290 Scandate 20210701024606 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780066214405 Tts_version 4.Absorbing reflections reaching more widely than merely the ‘new generation of therapists and their patients’ Urn:lcp:giftoftherapyope0000yalo:lcpdf:3b1c0501-a124-44af-afde-b26ab3052652 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier giftoftherapyope0000yalo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5gc3wv69 Invoice 2089 Isbn 0066214408 Lccn 2001039319 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9942 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400140 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:01:01 Boxid IA40831513 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Irvin d yalom the gift of therapy