The gift of therapy
This summation of Yalom's life thinking on the art of psychotherapy, presented in the form of 85 tips, is filled with personal techniques and clinical anecdotes. Yalom, who has 45 yrs of clinical experience, addresses the nature of the therapist-patient relationship, explores the ultimate conce...
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| Glavni autor: | Yalom, Irvin D. (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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New York :
Parennial,
2003.
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- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Remove the obstacles of growth
- Avoid diagnosis (except for insurance companies)
- Therapist and patient as 'fellow travelers'
- Engage the patient
- Be supportive
- Empathy: Looking out the patient's window
- Teach empathy
- Let the patient matter to you
- Acknowledge your errors
- Create a new therapy for each patient
- The therapeutic act, not the therapeutic word
- Engage in personal therapy
- The therapist has many patients; the patient, one therapist
- The here-and-now
- Use it, use it, use it
- Why use the here-and-now
- Grow rabbit ears
- Search for here-and-now equivalents
- Working through issues in the here-and-now
- The here-and-now energizes therapy
- Use your own feelings as data
- Frame here-and-now comments carefully
- All is gist for the here-and-now
- Check into the here-and-now each hour
- What lies have you told me?
- Blank screen? Forget it! Be real
- Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure
- The mechanisms of therapy
- Be transparent
- Revealing here-and-now feelings
- Use discretion
- Revealing the therapist's personal life
- Use caution
- Revealing your personal life
- Caveats
- Therapist transparency and universality
- Patients will resist your disclosure
- Avoid the crooked cure
- On taking patients further then you have gone
- On being helped by your patient
- Encourage patient self-disclosure
- Feedback in psychotherapy
- Provide feedback effectively and gently
- Increase receptiveness to feedback by using 'parts'
- Feedback: Strike when the iron is cold
- Talk about death
- Death and life enhancement
- How to talk about death
- Talk about life meaning
- Freedom
- Helping patients assume responsibility
- Never (almost never) make decisions for the patient
- Decisions: A Via Regia into existential bedrock
- Focus on resistance to decision
- Facilitating awareness by advice giving
- Facilitating decisions
- Other devices
- Conduct therapy as a continuous session
- Take notes of each session
- Encourage self-monitoring
- When you patients weeps
- Give yourself time between patients
- Express your dilemmas openly
- Do home visits
- Don't take explanation too seriously
- Therapy-accelerating devices
- Therapy as a dress rehearsal for life / Use the initial complaint as leverage
- Don't be afraid of touching your patient
- Never be sexual with your patents
- Look for anniversary and life-stage issues
- Never ignore 'therapy anxiety'
- Doctor, take away my anxiety
- On being love's executioner
- Taking a history
- A history of the patient's daily schedule
- How is the patient's life peopled?
- Interview the significant other
- Explore previous therapy
- Sharing the shade of the shadow
- Freud was not always wrong
- CBT is not what it's cracked up to be... or Don't be afraid of the EVT boogeyman
- Dreams
- use them, use them, use them
- Use dreams pragmatically: Pillage and loot
- Master some dream navigational skills
- Learn about the patient's life from dreams
- Pay attention to the first dream
- Attend carefully to dreams about the therapist
- Beware the occupational hazards
- Cherish the occupational privileges
- Notes