Writing the Talking Cure
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Writing the Talking Cure

Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Writing the Talking Cure

Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy

About this book

A distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Irvin D. Yalom is also the United States' most well-known author of psychotherapy tales. His first volume of essays, Love's Executioner, became an immediate best seller, and his first novel, When Nietzsche Wept, continues to enjoy critical and popular success. Yalom has created a subgenre of literature, the "therapy story, " where the therapist learns as much as, if not more than, the patient; where therapy never proceeds as expected; and where the therapist's apparent failure provesultimately to be a success. Writing the Talking Cure is the first book to explore all of Yalom's major writings. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Jeffrey Berman comments on Yalom's profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature and emphasizes the recurrent ideas that unify his writings: the importance of the therapeutic relationship, therapist transparency, here-and-now therapy, the prevalence of death anxiety, reciprocal healing, and the idea of the wounded healer. Throughout, Berman discusses what Yalom can teach therapists in particular and the common (and uncommon) reader in general.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Existence Pain
  7. 1. The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy: The Art of Self-Disclosure
  8. 2. Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Dual Perspective of Therapy
  9. 3. Existential Psychotherapy: Living with Death Anxiety
  10. 4. Inpatient Group Psychotherapy: Educating Observers and the Observed
  11. 5. Loveā€™s Executioner: Living with Existence Pain
  12. 6. When Nietzsche Wept: Gratitude and Its Discontents
  13. 7. Lying on the Couch: The Threat of Sexual Boundary Violations
  14. 8. Momma and the Meaning of Life: The ā€œSmoldering Inner Compost Heapā€ of Creativity
  15. 9. The Gift of Therapy: The Hazards and Privileges of Being a Therapist
  16. 10. The Schopenhauer Cure: Searching for an Antidote
  17. 11. Staring at the Sun: Novel Healing
  18. 12. The Spinoza Problem: ā€œA Sedative for My Passionsā€
  19. 13. Creatures of a Day: Anticipating Endings
  20. Conclusion: Yalomā€™s Cure and Becoming Myself
  21. Works Cited
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover