As an award-winning author of both nonfiction and fiction and a psychiatrist in practice for 35 years, Yalom imparts his unique wisdom in this remarkable guidebook for successful therapy.
Using the medium of six case studies, Dr Irvin Yalom reveals the intricacies of pyschological landscapes, and the unique dynamics of clients and therapists.
Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, "Staring at the Sun" is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often ...
The 10 stories here are fictionalized accounts of Yalom's actual experiences as a psychotherapist. In them, he demonstrates how different people struggle with "existence pain" and explores the depth of the psychotherapeutic experience.
A cast of memorably wounded characters struggles to heal pain and change lives in this novel of group therapy by a master therapist and acclaimed writer.
This work details, in 500 pages, the definition and framework for existential psychotherapy. Broken into four parts that reflect a major existential concern--death, freedom, isolation, and meaning--this text is required reading for clinicians and students of existential psychotherapy.
Hailed by Jerome Frank as the best book that exists on the subject, today and for the foreseeable future, Irvin D. Yaloms The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has long been the standard text in its field. Indeed, in a survey reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry, it was cited as one of the ten most influential psychiatry ...
Another bestseller from Yalom, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of Love's Executioner. This is a richly evocative novel that portrays an astutely imagined relationship between Europe's greatest philosopher and one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis.
In this collection of six stories, a psychotherapist explores the human psyche and the intimate bond between therapist and client. He reveals the ways in which he has encouraged himself and his patients to confront negative emotions of guilt, fear, sadness, and anger to achieve remarkable transformations.
Seventeen therapists and writers discuss their experiences with psychotherapy. Their writings shed light on and answer many questions about the therapeutic process. Among the authors: Theodore Reik, Erich Fromm, A. M. Homes, George Weinberg, Lester Havens, Irving D. Yalom, and Robert Lindner.
From one of the most celebrated and highly respected authorities in the field of psychotherapy comes a collection of his best works. In this anthology of Yalom's most influential work to date, readers experience the diversity of his writings, with pieces that range from the highly concrete and clinical to the abstract and theoretical.
A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical TechniqueFew mental health professionals are adequately trained to meet the unique needs of the 65-plus age-group. Written by experts - and in some cases pioneers - in the field, Treating the Elderly is filled with the most up-to-date information needed for developing the skills necessary to ...
A Volume in the Jossey--Bass Library of Current Clinical TechniqueAddresses the most current thought on sexual dysfunction. Shared here are clinical techniques and case studies derived from sex therapy, couples and marital therapy, behavior therapy, psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalysis. Also clarified is the reasoning behind the most effective ...
This guide examines the unique therapeutic value of group psychotherapy. Written for the clinician in need of concise, clinically relevant information, this book discusses how the patient-patient and the patient-therapist interactions in a group setting can affect changes in maladaptive behavior.
A Volume in the Jossey--Bass Library of Current Clinical TechniqueOffers the most current information for working with this challenging client population and outlines proven treatment options for borderline, narcissistic, and anti--social personalities. Also addresses the question of countertransference with reassuring, supportive advice to help ...
Treatments for Developmental Issues and Problems A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique. This book presents effective and efficient interventions for children who are just beginning school through the years of early puberty. The expert contributors offer the knowledge and tools for assessing and treating the problems ...
The Critical Years A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique. This book focuses on the clinical treatment of children from birth through age five, when the most devastating psychiatric syndromes can make their first appearance. This hands-on resource provides the knowledge and tools necessary to assess and treat serious ...
Seventeen therapists and writers discuss their experiences with psychotherapy. Their writings shed light on and answer many questions about the therapeutic process. Among the authors: Theodore Reik, Erich Fromm, A. M. Homes, George Weinberg, Lester Havens, Irving D. Yalom, and Robert Lindner.
This richly evocative novel portrays an astutely imagined relationship between Europe's greatest philosopher and one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis.
A richly evocative novel set in 19th-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis--by the bestselling author of Love's Executioner. The eminent physician Josef Breuer is asked to treat Friedrich Nietzsche's suicidal despair after the end of a love affair--without his knowing it. The doctor devises an ingenious plan, which ultimately ...
The dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient during therapy: a collaboration between the author of Loves Executioner and a talented young writer labeled as schizoid. . The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Loves Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a ...
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