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Title: Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics) by Irvin D. Yalom ISBN: 0-06-095834-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Love's Executioner
Comment: This book was written by a man of great courage. He has openly and honestly exposed all of his personal and professional weaknesses. As a therapist myself, it was refreshing to read an honest representation of what actually occurs in therapy rather than a self-serving and white-washed version of what happened. The strength of this book is in Yalom's ability to express the intricacies of the therapeutic process, the stages that each therapeutic relationship can go through, and its impact on both therapist and client. Another strength, is Yalom's willingness to openly expose his own therapeutic failures. I have learnt a great deal from him about what actually works in therapy. I have also re-learnt the value of not inflicting one's own biases on one's own clients. This problem can be solved by either resolving one's own issues, or referring the client to someone else who may better suit the client's needs. Yalom openly confronted what occurs when a therapist persists with a client, when they are unable to create an effective therapeutic relationship. No-one is perfect, not even the great Yalom. In exposing his own weaknesses, Yalom risks being misunderstood or even ridiculed. However, by taking this risk, Yalom offers the reader the opportunity to thoroughly examine the therapeutic process itself, what works and what fails for therapists and clients alike. It was a great read, I couldn't put it down!
Rating: 5
Summary: A word about some of the negative reviews...
Comment: It seems that there's more than a bit of transferance occuring with some of the reviewers here. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinions but some of the reviewers here seem to have either missed the point of Dr. Yalom's stories or are simply incapable of seeing past their entrenched prejudices and preconceptions.
Some readers are apparently unable to come to grips with one of the central theses of Yalom's book, which is that the therapist is just as human and prone to error and prejudice as his patients. If anything, Yalom is almost embarrassingly honest about his often extremely negative reactions to many of his patients. He doesn't candy-coat any of it. In this book we get Irvin Yalom, M.D., warts and all, just as he promises in his introduction.
The critics who cannot accept a "human" doctor are symptomatic of the greater societal damand that medical professionals should be (no, MUST be) above all emotion save those of the most magnanimous and saintly variety. We expect doctors to be godlike, above pettiness and messy "unseemly" thoughts and feelings. Bah. Hogwash.
Dr. Yalom's triumph here is the explosion of such myths. He is not St. Yalom, ministering from his pedestal of medical and moral perfection. He is Irvin Yalom the Man, as prone to judgment as any of us. His unflinching self-criticism and honesty -- with his patients, himself, and his readers -- is what makes this such a remarkable book and Yalom such a remarkable therapist.
If you're the sort who feels a psychic need to see doctors as superhuman this book will prove very disturbing to you. Those realistic enough to know this is ridiculous fantasy will be enlightening, entertained, and touched.
Rating: 5
Summary: please? what is wrong with you people?
Comment: If any of you reader-critic people think you're encountering a therapist or Doctor or friend who sees you without judgement--then you're simply fooling yourselves. Anyone who pretends they've got no judgement of you is selling you something. Even the holiest of humans judge--I'm sure of it. Get over yourselves--we are limited, we are not perfect. Yalom speaks the truth about his countertransference and that is a gift to all who are involved in the therapeutic enterprise. It is when we deny the shadow that we are in real trouble. Fat may not disgust everyone it is true--but this is Yalom's experience, and this is what he gives us unabashedly. Can you not find it within yourselves to allow him his feelings? Unconditional positive regard can only happen with full acknowledgement of all projections good and bad.
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Title: The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom ISBN: 0060938110 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom ISBN: 0060958383 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom ISBN: 0060975504 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lying on the Couch: A Novel by Irvin D. Yalom ISBN: 0060928514 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom, Ginny Elkin ISBN: 0465021182 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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