Want to see therapy from the other side? (Loves Executioner - Irvin Yalom)

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Product:	Loves Executioner - Irvin Yalom
Date:	22/08/00 (214 review reads)
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Advantages: You get inside the mind of a top therapist

Disadvantages: He hasn't written another selection of case histories yet!

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 children died, to the female client who is obese and raises personal issues for Yalom, the clients come alive as does Yalom himself, and we are faced with issues of pain, grief, anger and the existential questions which trouble us all.
I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the human mind and emotions, and particularly to anyone wanting to peek inside the mind of a top psychiatrist/therapist.

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