- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial (Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060958340
- ISBN-13: 978-0060958343
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.6 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 347,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This 1989 national bestseller includes ten riveting true narratives based on a master psychotherapist's practice that reveal an intimate and unusual view of the relationship between patient and therapist.
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Irving D. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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62 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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!
43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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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.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Love's Executioner is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It was engaging, interesting and I couldn't put it down. I read the entire book in two days. I also found it helpful in highlighting the therapeutic relationship, which students of psychotherapy will find helpful. Overall an excellent book!!!
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insight into psychotherapy
I found this book gave a real insight into psychotherapy. The author presents 6 cases and explains fully the patient's story and his thoughts and feelings as the therapy... Read more
Published 3 months ago by lorraine
Easy going holiday read
Great book, kept me engaged and I could dip in and out of it on holiday without losing the thread. I am a layman in psychotherapy, it was well written and understandable and... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Sally
a book every therapist should read
Love Irving Yalom. He is so frank and honest and it is great as a therapist to read that even someone as highly intelligent and experienced as Yalom still struggles with clients.
Published 16 months ago by mar
Life Giver
Strips away a lot of the therapeutic hocus pocus to reveal.....the emotional world. So often hidden in all of the layers of latinate academia pressing down to throttle the living... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
easy, captivating, well-written
easy reading, tales of therapy. writtes as an "as-is" narrative the cases have clearly been touched up, as has the writing. be that as it may, the book is never the less a joy
Published 18 months ago by asp
loves executioner fantastic read
This book is a educational insight into anyone who wants to understand the complex bond between a therapist and his patients. Read more
Published 20 months ago by teresa parker
Brilliant read
I read this book because it was on the reading list for a course I was doing in counselling skills, but I would recommend it to anyone not just counselling students. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Hazmonkey
How refreshing
Anyone about to step foot into the therapy room whether client or therapist will find this a refreshing read. Read more
Published on 17 May 2010 by A. Hewitt
Very much focused on what a budding therapist will have to face
Yalom's book is in a way an excellent field guide for a junior therapist to use. It shows many of the issue a therapist grapples with, and how certain feelings, not last of all... Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2009 by AK
Love's Executioner
A good, interesting read that made me think. I don't know why I enjoyed it, I found it more interesting than useful. I don't regret getting it.
Published on 19 Nov 2009 by Once bitten
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