The Gift of Therapy
Irvin D. Yalom · first published 2002 · ISBN 9780060938116
Yalom offers eighty-five brief chapters of advice drawn from thirty-five years of practice, each one a single observation about how to work with clients. He writes about presence, curiosity, authenticity, mistakes, self-disclosure, and what it takes to help someone change. This is not theory building but the actual wisdom a master clinician wants beginning therapists to carry with them.
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This book answers the question: what do I actually do when I'm sitting across from someone? Yalom shows that the craft matters as much as the theory, and that good therapy flows from how you listen and who you become in the room.