http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html/comment-page-1#comment-1894 BJ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:35:41 +0000 http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html#comment-1894 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 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

]]> http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html/comment-page-1#comment-1893 The Counselor Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:36:03 +0000 http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html#comment-1893 Great for counselors in training and professional counselors. I plan on getting more of his work. Rating: 5 / 5 Great for counselors in training and professional counselors. I plan on getting more of his work.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html/comment-page-1#comment-1892 Carol Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:01:43 +0000 http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html#comment-1892 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 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

]]> http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html/comment-page-1#comment-1891 Charlie Sandover Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:17:01 +0000 http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html#comment-1891 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 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

]]> http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html/comment-page-1#comment-1890 JackOfMostTrades Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:24:47 +0000 http://sure-com.net/the-gift-of-therapy-an-open-letter-to-a-new-generation-of-therapists-and-their-patients.html#comment-1890 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 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

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