Summary
Irvin Yalom: One Day
And Other Stories About Psychotherapy
This collection of ten brilliant stories should provide tangible lessons in psychotherapy, because in each of these cases Yalom, master of psychotherapy, but also a master storyteller, devised or found a unique approach to each client, which could not be found in a manual for therapists. In these stories, clients deal with the fear of death, the loss of loved ones and the ultimate loss of self, the question of how to live life meaningfully, how to fight against old age and the loss of life opportunities, choice, along with fundamental isolation. Because many more clients struggle with existential questions than is usually thought, and these stories are about taking their lives into their own hands and providing encouragement and support.
Why do people from Yalom's practice find encouragement?
How do conversations help people take their lives back into their own hands?
How to deal with universal human adversities?
What if there are existential questions behind uncomfortable feelings?
U with its narrative method, Yalom addresses our "inner child" by teaching us how to deal with the loss of loved ones, loneliness, crisis of meaning in life, identity problems, fear of aging and death, loss of life opportunities... And the main lesson is about responsibility for the choices and decisions we make.
Zoran Milivojević, psychotherapist,
President of the Association of Psychotherapists Serbia
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