false 21025 4 Speaking directly to the current generation of counselors, <I>The Gift of Therapy</I> lays out simple suggestions that blend personal experience with professional objectivity. This is a book that will remind you why you entered the field in the first place. With tips on avoiding diagnosis (except for insurance purposes), when to disclose personal information, and why it's important to leave time between patient appointments, the recommendations are aimed at therapists, but they may be useful to patients who want to know what to expect from their counselors. Some references to the DSM-IV may be a little over the layperson's head, but in general the writing is clear and understandable for lay readers as well as professionals. <p> Each chapter is just a few pages long, a nice format for busy folks whose reading time occurs in snippets. A single topic is addressed in each chapter, and author Irvin Yalom doesn't waste any time in getting to the point. Many of the sections revolve around balancing the "magic, mystery, and authority" that come with the job of freeing your clients of their reliance on you. <p> From when to offer an occasional hug to finding the perfect time for deeper questioning, Yalom's experienced observations will help you achieve even greater professional effectiveness while avoiding some of the more obvious traps in this HMO-directed age of mental health care. <I>--Jill Lightner</I> 22212 2002 The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients total:555|5:245|4:217|3:78|2:15|1:0| 555 2357 802 73 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 1 false Thu Dec 04 14:21:23 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 10:30:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 4 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 10:20:43 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 07:16:24 -0800 2008
i like yalom, and he shares my interest in questions of how to really use yourself & your experience o...more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 1 false Thu Oct 25 22:47:58 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 22:51:18 -0700 2007 How Can I Help? to budding social workers, and I'm recommending The Gift of Therapy. It's quite possible that no one in the world can really understand why we do what we do except for others in the profession, and this "open letter" is an excellent resource to remi...more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 1 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue May 27 06:13:07 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 06:18:12 -0700 2008 1274096 0066214408 9780066214405 3 2 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182431664m/1274096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1274096.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 12:39:50 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 12:39:50 -0700 2007
Yalom is probably best known for his Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy texts, which are viewed as classics for counseling theory/practice courses. His recent (2002) publication, The Gift of T...more...]]> 1274096 0066214408 9780066214405 3 2 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182431664m/1274096.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1274096.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 14 17:15:58 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 10:06:03 -0800 2008 From the book:,
"Lastly, it has always struck me as an extraordinary privilege to belong to the vernable and honorable guild of healers. We therapists are part of a tradition reaching back not only to our immediate ancestors, beginning with Freud and Jung and all their ancestors - Nietzsch...more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 07:44:18 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 07:54:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Sat Mar 28 21:02:36 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 21:06:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 12:37:34 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 09:05:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 4 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 09:53:03 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 10:00:32 -0700 2009 Excellent, direct prose. Never dull, if occasionally didactic.
Yalom offers many lessons, not all of which will be applicable to most, but some of which were so spot-on that I couldn't keep from laughing that this book could so immediately help me.]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 4 0 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:15:03 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:24:15 -0800 2009 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jun 07 21:32:58 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 21:36:50 -0700 2007 letters to a young poet, but not too much. it stands on its own - it doesn't really try to be a conversation. again, yalom's sometimes overwhelming pompousness turns you off, and there are things that i would...more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 3 0 false Sun Oct 11 15:56:01 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:56:55 -0700 2009 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Sun Mar 08 11:22:45 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:23:28 -0700 2009 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 0 0 false Sun Oct 11 16:37:01 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:38:14 -0700 2009 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Mon Nov 24 12:22:33 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 12:24:23 -0800 2008
I recommend it to every mental health clinician.]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 26 15:01:08 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 15:02:07 -0700 2009 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Sep 12 22:51:08 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 22:53:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 2 0 false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 19:17:28 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 17:36:55 -0700 2009 21025 0060938110 9780060938116 530 69 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301506m/21025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21025.The_Gift_of_Therapy_An_Open_Letter_to_a_New_Generation_of_Therapists_and_Their_Patients 5 0 false Wed Aug 12 19:04:06 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 20:15:28 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3154674