Loves Executioner - Irvin Yalom

Loves Executioner - Irvin Yalom: Want to see therapy from the other side? (193 words)
by lily7star - written on 22.08.00 (Very useful, 194 readings)
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I don't know anyone who's read this book and not thought it absolutely fascinating. Yalom, who is Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford, writes brilliantly of the relationship between therapist and client by taking ten of his case histories and unpicking the therapy process he and the client went through. So often in therapy accounts we hear only of what is happening for the client, but here Yalom is unusually frank about his own thoughts, frustrations and hopes within therapy. From the man who shocks a group by saying he thinks rape is acceptable, to the man who can't bring himself to open some letters,the woman who feels the wrong one of her ...