کتاب دژخیم عشق (و چند داستان روان درمانگری دیگر)، مجموعه ای از تشریحات روان درمانگر بزرگ، اروین دی. یالوم است که در سال 1989 به انتشار رسید. یالوم در این کتاب به شکلی داستان گونه به اسرار، مشکلات، تلخی ها و شیرینی های جلسات درمانی خود می پردازد. او با روایت هنرمندانه ی مشکلات مراجعانش، نه تنها فرصتی منحصر به فرد و ارزشمند برای آشنایی با خواسته ها و انگیزه های نهان ذهن افراد مختلف در اختیار مخاطبین قرار می دهد، بلکه آن ها را با مشکلات شخصی خود در دست و پنجه نرم کردن با مسئولیت سنگینش به عنوان یک روانپزشک نیز آشنا می سازد.
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and then promoted over the next several years and granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existential psychotherapy.
In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Yalom has produced a number of novels and also experimented with writing techniques. In Everyday Gets a Little Closer Yalom invited a patient to co-write about the experience of therapy. The book has two distinct voices which are looking at the same experience in alternating sections. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standard reading for psychology students. His new and unique view of the patient/client relationship has been added to curriculum in Psychology programs at such schools as John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
The American Psychiatric Association awarded Irvin Yalom the 2000 Oskar Pfister Award (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry).
Yalom has continued to maintain a part-time private practice and has authoried a number of video documentaries on theapeutic techniques. Yalom is also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight From Death, a film that investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences.
یالومه دیگه، اصلا مگه چیزی هم میشه گفت؟! یه مجموعه داستانه که هر داستانش جذابیت خاص خودشو داره. ولی خب به جذابی سایر آثارش نیست . دانشجوهای روانشناسی و تراپیستها حتماااااا باید بخونن. یه جاهاییش خیلی تخصصی میشه و خیلی خوب تخصصی و عمیق مسائل ریزهکاریِ توی درمان رو میشکافه… واقعا چرا تو ایران یالوم نداریم که برم پیشش؟! 😭
با این کتاب از طریق کتاب هنر درمان یالوم آشنا شدم که درمورد خاطرات اتاق درمان بیمارانش هست. یالوم تو این کتاب 10 تا داستان از مراجعاش آورده که هم برای خواننده معمولی و هم بچه های روانشناسی میتونه جذاب باشه با این تفاوت که بچه های روانشناسی بعضی نکات درمانی رو هم در کنارش یاد میگیرن. خودم داستان «متشکرم که زندگی ام را نجات دادید» و «خانم چاق» رو از همه بیشتر دوست داشتم. در کل کتاب خوبی بود ولی جذابیتش در حد اثرهای دیگه یالوم نبود