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" The gift of therapy : "
Irvin D. Yalom.
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BL
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713586
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b535775
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| Main Entry
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Yalom, Irvin D.,1931-
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| Title & Author
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The gift of therapy : : an open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients /\ Irvin D. Yalom.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Harper Perennial ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Harper Perennial,, 2009.
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xxi, 263, 32 pages ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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0061719617
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: 9780061719615
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| Notes
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"Includes more than twenty additional pages of new therapy tips by the author"--Cover.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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
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44. Talk about life meaning -- 45. Freedom -- 46. Helping patients assume responsibility -- 47. Never (almost never) make decisions for the patient -- 48. Decisions: A via regia into existential bedrock -- 49. Focus on resistance to decision -- 50. Facilitating awareness by advice giving -- 51. Facilitating decisions; other devices -- 52. Conduct therapy as a continuous session -- 53. Take notes of each session -- 54. Encourage self-monitoring -- 55. When your patient weeps -- 56. Give yourself time between patients -- 57. Express your dilemmas openly -- 58. Do home visits -- 59. Don't take explanation too seriously -- 60. Therapy-accelerating devices -- 61. Therapy as a dress rehearsal for life -- 62. Use the initial complaint as leverage -- 63. Don't be afraid of touching your patient -- 64. Never be sexual with patients -- 65. Look for anniversary and life-stage issues -- 66. Never ignore "therapy anxiety," -- 67. Doctor, take away my anxiety -- 68. On being love's executioner -- 69. Taking a history -- 70. A history of the patient's daily schedule -- 71. How is the patient's life peopled? -- 72. Interview the significant other -- 73. Explore previous therapy -- 74. Sharing the shade of the shadow -- 75. Freud was not always wrong -- 76. CBT is not what it's cracked up to be ... Or, don't be afraid of the EVT boogeyman -- 77. Dreams; use them, use them, use them -- 78. Full interpretation of a dream? Forget it! -- 79. Use dreams pragmatically: pillage and loot -- 80. Master some dream navigational skills -- 81. Learn about the patients's life from dreams -- 82. Pay attention to the first dream -- 83. Attend carefully to dreams about the therapist -- 84. Beware the occupational hazards -- 85. Cherish the occupational privileges -- P.S. Insights, interviews & more. About the author -- About the book -- Have you read?
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| Abstract
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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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Yalom, Irvin D.,1931-
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Psychotherapy.
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Physician-Patient Relations.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.8914
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RC480.Y35 2009
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