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A review by calebmatthews
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
3.0
An interesting book, but Yalom’s forward approaches and judgement were not okay in my opinion. It was still nice to see what therapy looks like in a narrative form.
Love’s Executioner
The givens of life
-The inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love
-the freedom to make our lives as we will
-our ultimate aloneness
-the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life
A crucial first step in therapy is the patients assumption of responsibility for his or her life predicament. As long as one believe that their problems are caused by some force or agency outside oneself, there is no leverage in therapy.
Thelma and her therapist Matthew - she continues to see him once a month following therapy
Wise madness or foolish sanity
If rape were legal… - part honest or easy honest
Fat shaming
“Another boring session” — yikes
“Refusing to watch the sunrise because you hate to see it set”
Setting a termination date leading to higher efficacy in therapy
If something big in relationships isn’t talked about then nothing else of important will be either
if you lose child you lose the future
Do not go gentle chapter - never take away anything- if you have nothing better to offer
Yalom saying the purpose of therapy
Two smiles - she kills a dog!
Nietzche - our first impressions are closest to truth
Threshold of a psychotic patient - helping them care for themselves shifts into safety planning
Letters and leaving 50 in will
Turning a dream from past tense to present tense
Paradox
One year follow up session
For: people studying existential psychotherapy in a narrative format
Yalom learning to type via space invader game
He forgets the endings
Love’s Executioner
The givens of life
-The inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love
-the freedom to make our lives as we will
-our ultimate aloneness
-the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life
A crucial first step in therapy is the patients assumption of responsibility for his or her life predicament. As long as one believe that their problems are caused by some force or agency outside oneself, there is no leverage in therapy.
Thelma and her therapist Matthew - she continues to see him once a month following therapy
Wise madness or foolish sanity
If rape were legal… - part honest or easy honest
Fat shaming
“Another boring session” — yikes
“Refusing to watch the sunrise because you hate to see it set”
Setting a termination date leading to higher efficacy in therapy
If something big in relationships isn’t talked about then nothing else of important will be either
if you lose child you lose the future
Do not go gentle chapter - never take away anything- if you have nothing better to offer
Yalom saying the purpose of therapy
Two smiles - she kills a dog!
Nietzche - our first impressions are closest to truth
Threshold of a psychotic patient - helping them care for themselves shifts into safety planning
Letters and leaving 50 in will
Turning a dream from past tense to present tense
Paradox
One year follow up session
For: people studying existential psychotherapy in a narrative format
Yalom learning to type via space invader game
He forgets the endings