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"A Gift to Psychotherapists (Thousands of Psychologies)" Subtitle: An Open Letter to the New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients Author: Irvin Yalom
"A Gift to Psychotherapists (Thousands of Psychologies)" Subtitle: An Open Letter to the New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients Author: Irvin Yalom
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This is a precious memorandum written by Irvin Yalom, the world's existential psychotherapy master, to the younger generation of therapists, which brings together his most authentic experiences and most candid communications. Opening this book is like opening a gift of life from Yalom, which will lead you to appreciate the unique charm of psychotherapy - "real encounter with others."
Dr. Yalom shares his new perspectives and discoveries in recent years, not only new thoughts and insights on the original topic, but also his deep understanding of current research developments. The new edition also includes an exclusive interview with Yalom, allowing us to get closer to this master of psychotherapy.
This book contains 85 wise sayings from Dr. Yalom, all of which are based on his most authentic clinical experience over the past 35 years, including: the relationship between therapist and patient; methods of exploring death, the meaning of life, and freedom; different problems that arise in daily treatment; how to use dreams in treatment; and the dangers and privileges of being a therapist.
The new edition of "A Gift to Psychotherapists" exclusively adds more than forty pages of new content. Irvin Yalom not only generously shares his new thoughts on this book in recent years, but also has an exclusive interview record with him.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Irvin Yalom (1931- )
One of the most influential and widely circulated psychotherapists in the world today, an authority on group psychotherapy in the United States, a master of psychiatry, one of the three major representatives of existential therapy, and an honorary professor of psychiatry at Stanford University in the United States; his works include "Looking into the Sun", "Schopenhauer's Therapy", "When Nietzsche Cries", "Getting Closer", "A Gift for Psychotherapists", etc.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
1. Remove barriers to growth
2. Avoid making a diagnosis
3. Therapists and patients as “travel partners”
4. Allow the patient to truly enter into a relationship with the therapist
5. Provide support
6. Empathy: Seeing the world from the patient’s perspective
7. Teach empathy
8. Make the patient important to the therapist
9. Admit Your Mistakes
10. Create different treatments for each patient
11. Therapeutic behavior, not therapeutic words
12. Receive individual therapy from a therapist
13. The therapist has many patients, but the patient has only one therapist
14. Take advantage of the here and now
15. Why use the “here and now”?
16. Use the here and now to increase sensitivity
17. Look for events in the “here and now”
18. Deal with the “here and now”
19. The here and now can drive healing
20. Use your feelings as information
21. Be careful with your comments about the here and now
22. “Here and Now” provides rich material for therapy
23. Check in with the Here and Now in Every Session
24. What lies did you tell me?
25. "Blank screen"? Forget it! Be real!
26. Three types of self-disclosure by therapists
27. The mechanism of treatment - be sincere to the patient
28. Express your feelings in the here and now—use discretion
29. Expose the therapist’s personal life—be careful
30. Expose your private life - some warnings
31. Therapist’s sincerity and universality
32. The patient will reject your self-disclosure
33. Avoid false cures
34. The patient goes further than the therapist
35. Be helped by your patients
36. Encourage patients to self-disclose
37. Feedback in Psychotherapy
38. Give effective, gentle feedback
39. Increase patient receptiveness to feedback by using “sections”
40. Feedback: Strike while the iron is cold
41. Talking about Death
42. Death and its promotion of life
43. How to talk about death
44. Talk about the meaning of life
45. Freedom
46. Help patients take responsibility
47. Never (almost never) make decisions for a patient
48. Decision: The Ancient Path to Existential Questions
49. Pay attention to resistance to decision making
50. Promote self-awareness by providing suggestions
51. Facilitating Decisions - Other Methods
52. Make treatment a continuum
53. Keep records of each treatment
54. Encourage self-monitoring
55. When your patient cries
56. Take time for yourself between patients
57. Speak directly about your dilemma
58. Home visits
59. Don’t take explanations too seriously
60. Methods to promote treatment
61. Therapy as a rehearsal for life
62. Use initial complaints as leverage
63. Don’t be afraid to touch your patients
64. Never have sexual overtones when interacting with patients.
65. Look for anniversaries or milestones in life
66. Never ignore anxiety treatment
67. Doctor, please take my anxiety away
68. About the Executioner of Love
69. Understand case history
70. Understand the patient’s schedule
71. Interpersonal aspects of the patient’s life
72. Interview important people in the patient’s life
73. Understand previous treatments
74. Share the dark side of human nature
75. Freud wasn’t always wrong
76. Cognitive behavioral therapy is not what it is cracked up to be
77. Using Dreams in Therapy
78. Fully interpreting dreams? Don’t try.
79. The pragmatic use of dreams
80. Master some dream analysis skills
81. Understanding the patient’s life from his dream
82. Pay attention to the first dream
83. Pay attention to dreams related to therapists
84. Be aware of occupational risks
85. Cherish the Privilege of Treatment Notes New Edition Supplement About the Author New Thoughts and Developments on the Book Interview with Professor Yalom
