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Book: The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Quotes of Book: The Gift of Therapy: An Open
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  1. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is not a substitute for life but a dress rehearsal for life, In other words, though psychotherapy requires a close relationship, the relationship is not an end - it is a means to an end.
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  2. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    I believe "technique" is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. {E}very course of therapy consists of small and large spontaneously generated responses or techniques that are impossible to program in advance.
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  3. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    Perhaps the real therapy occurred at the deathbed scene, when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they were fellow travelers, both simply human, all too human.
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  4. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to appear in a form that they may be expressed.
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  5. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide the fleeting shallow encounters and small talk of many social gatherings.
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  6. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.
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  7. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window
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  8. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    Too often, we therapists neglect our personal relationships. Our work becomes our life.
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  9. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning. One of our major tasks is to invent a meaning sturdy enough to support a life and to perform the tricky maneuver of denying our personal authorship of this meaning. Thus we conclude instead that it was "out there" waiting for us. Our ongoing search for substantial meaning systems often throws us into crises of meaning.
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  10. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    Psychotherapy is a demanding vocation, and the successful therapist must be able to tolerate the isolation, anxiety, and frustration that are inevitable in the work.
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  11. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility-that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to their distress.
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  12. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Gift of Therapy: An Open

    The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness-domains soaked in anxiety.
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