If on the other hand, you're interested in personal development or the process of therapy, you'll find a unique insight into what happens in the consulting room. If you're training or working in psychotherapy Yalom offers you a grounding and steadying voice alongside practical tips on being a therapist. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (P.S.) Paperback 19 September 2017 by Irvin Yalom (Author) 2,643 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 460.78 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 11,764.00 Other used from 11,764.00 Paperback 1,233.00 Other new from 1,169. Through interesting and relatable case studies, Yalom talks us through the challenges we often encounter as counsellors and offers advice on how to tackle them. He argues that this in itself can help to create a more authentic and therefore healing therapeutic relationship, where we meet our clients as a fellow human being instead of an 'expert'. In this classic guide to the process of psychotherapy, Yalom grants us permission to not know and to make mistakes, going as far as to assert that there is value in both sitting in the uncertainty with our clients and acknowledging when we drop the ball. In The Gift of Therapy he shares his hard won wisdom from his long career as a psychiatrist and existential psychotherapist with wit, pragmatism and humility. What a relief then to come across Irvin Yalom's work. Here therapists seemed so certain, acting with almost prescient insight and knowing exactly what was happening in the consulting room at all times. The acute sense of inadequacy at daring to think I could help someone else through their suffering when I was still so flawed and uncertain myself, was only compounded by the many 'success' stories I encountered in the literature. Even after 10 years in clinical practice, I remember the anxiety of being a trainee all too clearly.

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom