Irvin Yalom is one of the best known, most widely-read and most
influential psychiatrists in the contemporary world. Through his
many books, which are accessible to ordinary readers as well as
illuminating for psychotherapists, he has provided a guide for
living in a perplexing world. A recent poll of American
psychotherapists voted him to be one of the three most important
living therapists, but the worldwide success of his books suggests
that his prominence is international Rather than positioning
himself as a representative of one of the hundreds of "schools" or
approaches to psychotherapy, Yalom offers a message that goes to
the heart of psychotherapy. Taking up the central existential
concerns of human life, Yalom's work engages the problems of
finding meaning in life and confronting death, concerns that had
lain beyond the scope of psychiatry. Writing in a literary style
that reviewers have compared to Freud, Yalom details what actually
happens in the intimate human encounter that is psychotherapy.
Yalom does not shrink from exposing his own thoughts and feelings
about what occurs; he, too, is a vulnerable and searching human
being. He makes his thinking about his patients, and his efforts to
treat them, transparent, exposing his doubts, reservations and
struggles as well as his insights. He has written two textbooks,
two volumes of case history stories, three novels about therapy, a
guide for therapists and one book of counsel for the masses
confronting death. Across all of this work, he explores the
limitless and complex possibilities of the healing inherent in
genuine human connection and authentic awareness of the dilemmas of
human existence. This book Irvin Yalom: On Psychotherapy and the
Human Condition traces the genesis and evolution of his thinking
and presents some of the seminal ideas of his writings. AUTHOR:
Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at The
Fielding Graduate University and was formerly a Professor at The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University. She is the
author of Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another;
Revising Herself: The Story of Women's Identity from College to
Midlife and The Space Between Us: Exploring the Dimensions of Human
Relationships. She has been, for many years, Co-editor of the
Annual, The Narrative Study of Lives. Recipient of the Henry A.
Murray Award from the American Psychological Association and a
Fulbright Fellowship, she is also a practicing psychotherapist and
holds a diplomate in Group Psychotherapy.
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