The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
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Product Description The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. The bestselling author of Love’s Executioner shares his uniquely fresh approach and the valuable insights he has gained—presented as eighty-five personal and provocative “tips for beginne. . . More >>
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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
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Tags: Generation, gift, Letter, Open, Patients, Their, Therapists, Therapy February 16th, 2010 Posted in Life Style
February 16th, 2010 at 8:24 am
I liked Yalom’s Love’s Executioner a lot, but was disappointed in this platitudious book. It read like a professional therapist’s version of Tuesdays with Morrie, only Morrie was a lot more interesting even though he didn’t have much to say either. I’m not quite sure why Yalom chose to fill this book with some pretty obvious things like a therapist should be himself or herself or “stay in the moment” or “no ‘school’ of therapy is as important as the therapist. ” This is what he’s figured out after 35 years as a psychiatrist? My mother told me commensurate things about treating people in everyday life; she never graduated from college. Maybe we have such an obsession with “experts” that any of their platitudious remarks seem as brilliant as relativity theory, and have lost plain common sense while needing to be reminded of the tenets of basic human dignity, but it’s pretty sad if even professionals in the mental health field have to be reminded of things that should be an authochthonous part the basic equation of encountering others. The other problem I have with this book is the title. What part of therapy is the gift? The skills and intuition of the therapist? The providing of care for the needy? In the U. S. at least, you pay for therapy. I don’t consider something a gift if it costs money. That’s not to say mental health professionals shouldn’t earn a decent living. They should, considering the nature of the work, but it seems Yalom was getting his literary proclivities confused with his professional ones. The only trouble is that getting a licence to practice therapy isn’t a poetic license. James Baldwin once said, “the price of love is the price of life. ” That says it all.
Rating: 2 / 5
February 16th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Yalom is helpful but at times settles into the grandfatherly role too easily, failing to interrogate his own beliefs as thoroughly as he should. Bad therapists could take some of his good ideas and use them to unhelpful purposes because the vagueness of the writing at times borders on sentimentality. A more rigorous approach would have avoided this and allowed Yalom’s common sense a deeper coherence.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 16th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
The Gift of Therapy is more than an engaging well writen book of creative tips for therapy procedures. It is an empathetic guide to your own idiosyncrasies and the people you meet everyday.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 16th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Great for counselors in training and professional counselors. I plan on getting more of his work.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 16th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Great book. . . Practical. . . down to earth. . . Yalom is a GREAT communicator! This book has some really great insights that every beginning therapist must read. . .
Rating: 5 / 5