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by Irvin D Yalom (Author) "I DO NOT LIKE to work with patients who are in love ..." (more)
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Consists of eight case-studies of people the author has treated, including a woman of 67, obsessively pining with love for her 32-year-old previous therapist and a woman of 19 stone who has emotional difficulties because of her weight problem. Such stories reveal the diversity of human motivation.


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Irving D. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a really easy read, 1 Jun 2005
If you like reading case histories, then this is the book for you. It is a series of case histories with Irvin Yaloms thoughts included as part of the narrative. It tells you what happened, what he was thinking while it happened, what he was aiming for with his responses and where he occasionally went wrong! As a trainee counsellor, I found this a very refreshing and honest read. I also found it useful as a loose guide for hints and tips. It may not be an ideal practical skills manual, but it was entertaining, thought provoking and a wonderful insight to existentialism. Like one of the other reviewers, it was on my required reading list for my course, and also like that reviewer, it is the only one I picked up and read cover to cover within a few days - it really made me care about the clients he wrote about and I wanted to see what happened to them - luckily Irvin Yalom tells you!
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating, 31 Dec 1999
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Only once in a while do you come across a book -- in a shop, library, or friend's collection -- and find that, within just a few lines, it's prose jumps out at you from the page, haunting you, until you posess and devour it for yourself. This is such a book.
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68 of 72 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for trainee counsellors, 17 Feb 2001
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what can I say, I have been training as a counsellor for three years and this is the first book which was on the college book list that I could not put down. The other books on the list are still unread in my bookcase. Though reading Yalom I now understand existentialism . It was wonderful, very easy to read. the book was delivered on Thursday and I finished it on Friday, which is amazing for me as I live in a household of 4 young children. Buy it tommorrow, I'm going to buy more copies for all my friends as I promised them they could read mine when I had finished with it but I'm afraid that I won't get it back so they will have to have their own copy. If anyone knows of an address where I can write to Irvin Yalom let me know. By the way I have just ordered the rest of his books
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book horrendous edition
An awesome book, magnificently written which gives great insight in psychotherapy and the mechanisms of language and the human mind. Read more
Published 1 month ago by cronopi

5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favourite therapy texts
i read this many years ago when studying to be a relate therapist - and it was one of my favourite texts - very easy to read, interesting and varied case studies, and written in a... Read more
Published 2 months ago by LH

4.0 out of 5 stars Compelling 'pop' psychology
Irvin Yalom takes us on a journey into the psyche - or several journeys, as these are case studies taken from his real-life psychotherapy practice. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Louise Rodgers

5.0 out of 5 stars Fly on the wall inside the therapist's mind
What I particularly like about this book is that Yalom is able to say 'this is where I got in the way, this is where my own agenda inhibited the client's journey and progress' He... Read more
Published 5 months ago by titaniamoth

5.0 out of 5 stars Loves Executioner - another Yalom goodie
Yalom presents an honest account of his work as therapist revealing the humaness of the therapeutic relationship. Read more
Published 5 months ago by katherine Stenhouse

4.0 out of 5 stars Really interesting
I loved this book! A friend suggested it because I like books like 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' and in fact this was less bizarre than that, but stil very interesting... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Alexandra

5.0 out of 5 stars Tells you what therapy is about
This is a great book! If you've wondered what the difference is between psychotherapy and counselling (even people in the field are not that sure), this book will give you some... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Eugene K. O. Wong

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting subject but the book is dull, poorly written, and might turn you off therapy.
This is a collection of patient case studies by psychiatrist Yalom. It was given to me as a gift by a friend who is a great admirer of Yalom's work. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating stories of therapy where the psychiatrist is not God
Having read most of Yalom's other books, I expected this to be an insightful and instructive read. And so it proved. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Dr Karl

5.0 out of 5 stars What an amazing book...
I rarely read books to the end, even those I like, but this had me gripped from start to finish.

Yalom makes interactions with his patients into riveting, detective... Read more
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