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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1129698458 Title: The gift of therapy : an open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients Author: Irvin D Yalom Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2017. ISBN/ISSN: 9780061719615 0061719617 OCLC:1129698458

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The gift of therapy : an open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients

Author:	Irvin D Yalom
Publisher:	New York : Harper Perennial, 2017.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : Rei. edView all editions and formats
Summary:	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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Subjects	Yalom, Irvin D. Psychotherapy. Psychotherapist and patient. View all subjects
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Named Person:	Irvin D Yalom
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Irvin D Yalom Find more information about:
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.

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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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