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The gift of therapy / Irvin D. Yalom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Piatkus, 2010.Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: xxi, 307 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780749923730:
  • 0749923733
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8914
LOC classification:
  • .Y35 2010
Contents:
Remove the obstacles to growth -- Avoid diagnosis (except for insurance companies) -- Therapist and patient as 'fellow travelers' -- Engage the patient -- Be supportive -- Empathy: looking out the patient's window -- Teach empathy -- Let the patient matter to you -- Acknowledge your errors -- Create a new therapy for each patient -- The therapeutic act, not the therapeutic word -- Engage in personal therapy -- The therapist has many patients: the patient, one therapist -- The here and now-use it, use it, use it -- Why use the here and now? -- Using the here and now-grow rabbit ears -- Search the here-and-now equivalents -- Working through issues in the here-and-now -- The here-and-now energizes therapy -- Use your own feelings as data -- Frame here-and-now comments carefully -- All is grist for the here-and-now mill -- Check into the here-and-now each hour -- What lies have you told me? -- Blank screen? Forget it! Be real -- Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure -- The mechanism of therapy-be transparent -- Revealing here-and-now feelings-use discretion -- Revealing the therpist's personal life-use caution -- Revealing your personal life-caveats -- Therapist transparency and universality -- Patients will resist your disclosure -- Avoid the crooked cure -- On taking patients further than you have gone -- On being helped by your patient -- Encourage patient self-disclosure -- Feedback in psychotherapy -- Provide feedback effectively and gently -- Increase receptiveness to feedback by using 'parts' -- Feedback: strike when the iron is cold -- Talk about death -- Talk about life meaning -- Freedom -- Helping patients assume responsibility -- Never (almost never) make decisions for the patient -- Decisions: a via regia into existential bedrock -- Focus on resistance to decision -- Facilitating awareness by advice giving -- Faciliating decisions-other devices -- Conduct therapy as a continuous session -- Take notes of each session -- Encourage self-monitoring -- When your patient weeps -- Give yourself time between patients -- Express your dilemmas openly -- Do home visits -- Don't take explanations too seriously -- Therapy-accelerating devices -- Therapy as a dress rehersal for life -- Use the initial complaint as leverage -- Don't be afraid of touching your patient -- Never be sexual with patients -- Look for anniversary and life-stage issues -- Never ignore 'therapy anxiety' -- Doctor, take away my anxiety -- On being Love's Executioner -- Taking a history -- A history of the patient's daily schedule -- How is the patient's lide peopled? -- Interview the significant other -- Explore previous therapy -- Sharing the shade of the shadown -- Freud was not always wrong -- CBT is not what its cracked up to be... or don't be afraid of the EVT Bogeyman -- Dreams-use them, use them, use them -- Full interpretation of a dream? Forget it! -- Use dreams pragmatically: pillage and loot -- Master some dream navigational skills -- Learn about the patient's life from dreams -- Pay attention to the first dream -- Attend carefully to dreams about the therapist -- Beware the occupational hazards -- Cherish the occupational privileges.

On cover: "An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients".

Originally published: USA : HarperCollins.

Includes bibliographical references.

Remove the obstacles to growth -- Avoid diagnosis (except for insurance companies) -- Therapist and patient as 'fellow travelers' -- Engage the patient -- Be supportive -- Empathy: looking out the patient's window -- Teach empathy -- Let the patient matter to you -- Acknowledge your errors -- Create a new therapy for each patient -- The therapeutic act, not the therapeutic word -- Engage in personal therapy -- The therapist has many patients: the patient, one therapist -- The here and now-use it, use it, use it -- Why use the here and now? -- Using the here and now-grow rabbit ears -- Search the here-and-now equivalents -- Working through issues in the here-and-now -- The here-and-now energizes therapy -- Use your own feelings as data -- Frame here-and-now comments carefully -- All is grist for the here-and-now mill -- Check into the here-and-now each hour -- What lies have you told me? -- Blank screen? Forget it! Be real -- Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure -- The mechanism of therapy-be transparent -- Revealing here-and-now feelings-use discretion -- Revealing the therpist's personal life-use caution -- Revealing your personal life-caveats -- Therapist transparency and universality -- Patients will resist your disclosure -- Avoid the crooked cure -- On taking patients further than you have gone -- On being helped by your patient -- Encourage patient self-disclosure -- Feedback in psychotherapy -- Provide feedback effectively and gently -- Increase receptiveness to feedback by using 'parts' -- Feedback: strike when the iron is cold -- Talk about death -- Talk about life meaning -- Freedom -- Helping patients assume responsibility -- Never (almost never) make decisions for the patient -- Decisions: a via regia into existential bedrock -- Focus on resistance to decision -- Facilitating awareness by advice giving -- Faciliating decisions-other devices -- Conduct therapy as a continuous session -- Take notes of each session -- Encourage self-monitoring -- When your patient weeps -- Give yourself time between patients -- Express your dilemmas openly -- Do home visits -- Don't take explanations too seriously -- Therapy-accelerating devices -- Therapy as a dress rehersal for life -- Use the initial complaint as leverage -- Don't be afraid of touching your patient -- Never be sexual with patients -- Look for anniversary and life-stage issues -- Never ignore 'therapy anxiety' -- Doctor, take away my anxiety -- On being Love's Executioner -- Taking a history -- A history of the patient's daily schedule -- How is the patient's lide peopled? -- Interview the significant other -- Explore previous therapy -- Sharing the shade of the shadown -- Freud was not always wrong -- CBT is not what its cracked up to be... or don't be afraid of the EVT Bogeyman -- Dreams-use them, use them, use them -- Full interpretation of a dream? Forget it! -- Use dreams pragmatically: pillage and loot -- Master some dream navigational skills -- Learn about the patient's life from dreams -- Pay attention to the first dream -- Attend carefully to dreams about the therapist -- Beware the occupational hazards -- Cherish the occupational privileges.

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