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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Irvin D. Yalom
4.24 AVERAGE
420 reviews for:
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Irvin D. Yalom
4.24 AVERAGE
Read for Basic Skills of counseling class. Yalom's writing is very comforting and I really enjoyed this book. He clearly loves Nietzsche lol. The chapters were very short, so I read them as "palette cleanser" between other books/articles and I found them very calming and reassuring. I want to buy this as a paperback for my collection!
This had a lot of really useful information and advice, though a lot of the time I was thinking "What is this man talking about?!" The first third of the book was more enjoyable to me than the last two-thirds as I think it had the most relevant information to a wide variety of counselors. I'm excited to reference this in like 10 years and see how much more I can relate.
Handy insight, but what I learned could easily be summarised by a short list of bullet points. I did like his encouragement of a person-centered approach - that your role as a therapist is not to give client's the answers to their problems (which you won't have anyway) but to give them the space and support to figure it out.
Parts I disliked included the, bloody, insane, amount, of, commas, and how much Irvin loves himself - he somehow manages to turn most 'tips' into something that relates to himself, which I understand to a certain degree but it's a bit overboard imo and I would not like to have him as my therapist so i'm taking these tips with a massive heaping of salt.
Parts I disliked included the, bloody, insane, amount, of, commas, and how much Irvin loves himself - he somehow manages to turn most 'tips' into something that relates to himself, which I understand to a certain degree but it's a bit overboard imo and I would not like to have him as my therapist so i'm taking these tips with a massive heaping of salt.
This took me forever to get through. Maybe it was designed that way. Just little nibbles to be smacked on?
Chosen profession
I have enjoyed reading this book. I read Yalom's Group Therapy book and was strongly influenced by it when I began as a counselor. This book was often inspiring and enjoyable to read. The short chapters made it easy to dip into piecemeal. As I read this off and on, truly growing as a professional during each interval, I began to see the truth and differences between Yalom's experiences and my own. Despite these differences, I am always comforted and inspired by this book. While my experiences seem to differ from the author's, the passion for the profession is the same.
I have enjoyed reading this book. I read Yalom's Group Therapy book and was strongly influenced by it when I began as a counselor. This book was often inspiring and enjoyable to read. The short chapters made it easy to dip into piecemeal. As I read this off and on, truly growing as a professional during each interval, I began to see the truth and differences between Yalom's experiences and my own. Despite these differences, I am always comforted and inspired by this book. While my experiences seem to differ from the author's, the passion for the profession is the same.
A very readable and helpful book on the basics of psychotherapy through an existential and interpersonal lens. Yalom uses experiences from his own practice as illustrations of the various themes important in psychotherapy.
I most definitely needed. This book made me feel better about the practices I do in session. I need to buy this book right now.
This book took me a while to read because it's 85 different snippets of advice. I would read a chapter or two a day and then sit it down. The flow was alright, as Yalom grouped these by similar topics. A lot of these tidbits were very common sense. I wonder if it might have done better had it been written in an actual letter format.
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced