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| Named Person: | Irvin D Yalom |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Irvin D Yalom |
| ISBN: | 9780061719615 0061719617 |
| OCLC Number: | 1129698458 |
| Notes: | "Includes more than twenty additional pages of new therapy tips by the author"--Cover. Other variant titles : An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients. |
| Description: | xxi, 263, 32 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents: | 1. Remove the obstacles to growth -- 2. Avoid diagnosis (except for insurance companies) -- 3. Therapist and patient as "fellow travelers," -- 4. Engage the patient -- 5. Be supportive -- 6. Empathy: looking out the patient's window -- 7. Teach empathy -- 8. Let the patient matter to you -- 9. Acknowledge your errors -- 10. Create a new therapy for each patient -- 11. The therapeutic act, not the therapeutic word -- 12. Engage in personal therapy -- 13. The therapist has many patients the patient, one therapist -- 14. The here-and-now, use it, use it, use it -- 15. Why use the here-and-now? -- 16. Using the here-and-now grow rabbit ears -- 17. Search for here-and-now equivalents -- 18. Working through issues in the here-and-now -- 19. The here-and-now energizes therapy -- 20. Use your own feelings as data -- 21. Frame here-and-now comments carefully -- 22. All is grist for the here-and-now mill -- 23. Check into the here-and-now each hour -- 24. What lies have you told me? -- 25. Blank screen? Forget it! Be real -- 26. Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure -- 27. The mechanism of therapy be transparent -- 28. Revealing here-and-now feelings use discretion -- 29. Revealing the therapist's personal life use caution -- 30. Revealing your personal life caveats -- 31. Therapist transparency and universality -- 32. Patients will resist your disclosure -- 33. Avoid the crooked cure -- 34. On taking patients further than you have gone -- 35. On being helped by your patient -- 36. Encourage patient self-disclosure -- 37. Feedback in psychotherapy -- 38. Provide feedback effectively and gently -- 39. Increase receptiveness to feedback by using "parts," -- 40. Feedback: strike when the iron is cold -- 41. Talk about death -- 42. Death and life enhancement -- 43. How to talk about death. |
| Other Titles: | Open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients |
| Responsibility: | Irvin D. Yalom. |
Abstract:
At once startlingly profound and irrestibly practical, the author's insights-let the patient matter to you; create a new kind of therapy for each patient; how and how not to use self-disclosure-help enrich the therapeutic process for both patient and counselor.
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