The Gift Of Therapy: An Open Letter To A New Generation Of Therapists And Their Patients

Author: Irvin D. Yalom

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  • : 9780749923730
  • : Little Brown
  • : Piatkus
  • : March 2003
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Description

The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr Irvin Yalom's forty-five years' work as a therapist, this book illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy.


Presented as eighty-five 'tips' for 'beginner therapists', Yalom shares his own fresh approach and the insights he has gained while treating his patients.


Personal, and sometimes provocative, Yalom includes some unorthodox suggestions:



  • Let the patient matter to you;

  • Acknowledge your errors;

  • Create a new therapy for each patient;

  • Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure;

  • Revealing the therapist's personal life: use caution;

  • Full interpretation of a dream? Forget it!;

  • Freud was not always wrong.


This is an entertaining, informative and insightful read for both beginner (and experienced) therapists, patients, students and everyone with an interest in the subject.


This new edition includes over twenty additional pages of new therapy tips by the author reflecting on the major issues and changes he has seen in the world of therapy since he first wrote this book in 2002.

Author description

Dr Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University. He has won two major awards from the American Psychiatric Association. He continues to run his clinical practice and lectures widely.