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The Gift of Therapy

Audiobook
1 of 2 copies available
1 of 2 copies available

The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom's more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. The bestselling author of Love's Executioner shares his uniquely fresh approach and the valuable insights he has gained—presented as eighty-five personal and provocative "tips for beginner therapists," including:

  • Let the patient matter to you
  • Acknowledge your errors
  • Create a new therapy for each patient
  • Do home visits
  • (Almost) never make decisions for the patient
  • Freud was not always wrong
  • A book aimed at enriching the therapeutic process for a new generation of patients and counselors, Yalom's Gift of Therapy is an entertaining, informative, and insightful read for anyone with an interest in the subject.

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      • AudioFile Magazine
        Even with the author's lengthy, often academic-sounding sentences, suave narrator Don Hagen delivers this gem of a book with a steady supply of the therapist's warmth and wisdom. Hagen's appealing tonal complexity and emotional depth convey the comforting reassurance you'd expect to hear in the words of an iconic 77-year-old psychiatrist. Yalom's contribution here is more that of artist than mental health provider--his sensitive observations of his own experience and especially his ideas about therapy interactions bring a humanity to this work that is often lacking in procedural therapy guides. He shows how his active engagement with his clients can be unsettling to them but helpful to the discovery process. Yalom's altruism and integrity are so powerful you can't imagine anyone objecting. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

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