اروین یالوم، روان‌درمانگر قصه‌گو

by Ruthellen Josselson, سپیده حبیب (translator)

Irvin Yalom is one of the best known, most widely-read and most influential psychiatrists in the contemporary world. Through his many books, which are accessible to ordinary readers as well as illuminating for psychotherapists, he has provided a guide for living in a perplexing world. A recent poll of American psychotherapists voted him to be one of the three most important living therapists, but the worldwide success of his books suggests that his prominence is international Rather than positioning himself as a representative of one of the hundreds of "schools" or approaches to psychotherapy, Yalom offers a message that goes to the heart of psychotherapy. Taking up the central existential concerns of human life, Yalom's work engages the problems of finding meaning in life and confronting death, concerns that had lain beyond the scope of psychiatry. Writing in a literary style that reviewers have compared to Freud, Yalom details what actually happens in the intimate human encounter that is psychotherapy. Yalom does not shrink from exposing his own thoughts and feelings about what occurs; he, too, is a vulnerable and searching human being. He makes his thinking about his patients, and his efforts to treat them, transparent, exposing his doubts, reservations and struggles as well as his insights. He has written two textbooks, two volumes of case history stories, three novels about therapy, a guide for therapists and one book of counsel for the masses confronting death. Across all of this work, he explores the limitless and complex possibilities of the healing inherent in genuine human connection and authentic awareness of the dilemmas of human existence. This book Irvin On Psychotherapy and the Human Condition traces the genesis and evolution of his thinking and presents some of the seminal ideas of his writings. Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at The Fielding Graduate University and was formerly a Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University. She is the author of Playing How People Create One Another; Revising The Story of Women's Identity from College to Midlife and The Space Between Exploring the Dimensions of Human Relationships. She has been, for many years, Co-editor of the Annual, The Narrative Study of Lives. Recipient of the Henry A. Murray Award from the American Psychological Association and a Fulbright Fellowship, she is also a practicing psychotherapist and holds a diplomate in Group Psychotherapy.

Genres: Psychology

133 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. She was formerly Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor at Harvard University School of Education, and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. Dr. Josselson is a cofounder of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology; coeditor of 11 volumes of The Narrative Study of Lives, a series dedicated to publishing qualitative research; coauthor of Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis; and author of many journal articles and book chapters that explore the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. She has conducted workshops on interviewing skills for qualitative inquiry in the United States, France, Norway, Finland, Israel, and the United Kingdom. Based on interviews she has conducted over 35 years, she has written two books exploring women’s identity longitudinally (Finding Herself and Revising Herself) and three other books (The Space Between Us, Best Friends, and Playing Pygmalion). Dr. Josselson is a recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Henry A. Murray Award and Theodore R. Sarbin Award as well as a Fulbright Fellowship.

Reviews

[Gabriel Dorak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kniha začína rozhovorom s Yalomom, pokračuje 3 kapitolami líčiacimi jeho život, diela - ich obsah a ako vznikali, jeho pohľady na psychoterapiu aj jeho vzťahy. Kniha potom končí opäť rozhovorom s lekárom. Je to fajn kniha pre fanúšikov Yaloma a pre zorientovanie sa v jeho tvorbe. Obsahuje aj pekné a životne dôležité myšlienky prevzaté z filozofie. Číta sa to ľahko a predsa tam je priestor pre hlboké zamyslenia.

[Farkhondeh Nazarian · Rating 5 out of 5]

شناخت یالوم و فهم حرفاش شده یکی از آرزوهام. در حدی که دلم می‌خواد یه ساعت برنارد داشته باشم، همین الان زندگی رو متوقف کنم و فقط از یالوم بخونم؛ بعد به زندگی ادامه بدم. حس می‌کنم بدون فهمیدن حرف‌های یالوم عمرم داره با تباهی می‌گذره ...
پ ن: نمی‌شه از هنر ترجمه‌ی دکتر حبیب چشم پوشی کرد، مثل همیشه عالی

[Parimah Farzan · Rating 4 out of 5]

این کتاب از کتاب فروشی گارسه در سفر اذر ماه ۱۴۰۳ تهران همراه من شد. خوشحال شدم از پیدا کردن کتابی دیگر از یالوم و خواندنش را از همان روزهای پایانی سفر شروع کردم و امروز در نهم دی ماه ۱۴۰۳ به اتمام رسید.
و با یک جمله زیبا پایان یافت؛
«باهم بودن همه دارایی ما انسان هاست»

[Fateme Kazemzade]

Hard to get for anon-therapist :)

[Arefe · Rating 3 out of 5]

این کتاب مصاحبه با یالوم هست و مطالبش تکراریه.

[Argy M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Εξαιρετικο βιβλιο! Πολυ καλογραμμενο, που γινεται ευκολα κατανοητο απο τον αναγνωστη. Με ενθουσιασαν τα κεφαλαια που περιεχουν ενα ειδος συνεντευξης με τον Ι. Γιαλομ. Το προτεινω ανεπιφυλακτα αν θελετε να προσεγγισετε την υπαρξιακη ψυχοθεραπεια.

[Denisa Bielová · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pěkný průlet Yalomovým dílem a jeho hlavními myšlenkami, hodně pojednává také o existenciální psychoterapii

[Yiye · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book started with an interview with Irvin Yalom and summarized his major works and contributions to psychotherapy. Yalom opposes traditional method such as formulation and modeling. In the contrary, he is a strong advocate of group therapy and urges therapist to establish a relationship with the patient.
Yalom grew up in a ghetto where reading is his only escape. He specifically liked to read little stories in Reader’s Digest. Actually, he has a full collection of Reader’s Digest from 1927. Every week, he would go to the local library with a bag of books, and came home with another bag. He also likes to read about people – he read biographies from A to Z. A “voracious reader” as he described himself. This laid a strong foundation for his later writing and academic work.
Yalom approached psychotherapy through the lens of philosophy, illustrated by lots of his work such as Existential Psychotherapy. In addition to academic writing, he also wrote fictions that general public find enlightening.
Good read and I hope to read some of Irvin Yalom’s work like “Love’s Executioner” soon.