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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
3 reviews
stacy_es's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Hard to explain. From one side, it was good, gave the insight into the psychotherapist’s work, and not the average one, but well-knowingly good one. Some of Yalom’s methods/techniques gave me personal insights. The last conversation with the late relative is indeed powerful exercise.
From the other hand, the book is controversial, the author is too honest, his brutal sincerity might scare away from addressing a psychotherapist, as he/she’d would likewise judge and evaluate you, might get bored of you etc.
I understand that we all are human beings, but might be professional ethics is of higher personal value for me than brutal sincerity. The author shows his vulnerability, own issues and how deeply he himself is disturbed with his certain past.
Anyways, I liked the epilogue written 25 years later.
From the other hand, the book is controversial, the author is too honest, his brutal sincerity might scare away from addressing a psychotherapist, as he/she’d would likewise judge and evaluate you, might get bored of you etc.
I understand that we all are human beings, but might be professional ethics is of higher personal value for me than brutal sincerity. The author shows his vulnerability, own issues and how deeply he himself is disturbed with his certain past.
Anyways, I liked the epilogue written 25 years later.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Mental illness
hjesm's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Fatphobia, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Grief
nkmustdie's review against another edition
Yalom is absolutely disgusting. His immediate and cruel judgements of the included patients keep him from seeing them at their base as humans. His internal narration and dialogue are nothing but unhelpful brags about his own life or career or else long-winded rants dehumanizing a patient that he doesn't find interesting (is not a patient's responsibility to entertain their therapist), considered a patient delusional because he thought her too old to ever be considered as someone who could have a romantic relationship, and finds it easier to sympathize with a would-be rapist than a fat woman.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Medical content, Child death, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Grief, Cancer, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Death, and Chronic illness
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