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3.86 AVERAGE
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My first experience of Yalom's writing and I'm pretty fascinated. Yalom is clearly a very intelligent and devoted psychotherapist. Many of his ideas about therapy strike a chord with me... how a relationship between therapist and patient is important, that it needs to matter that there are two real people talking about deep matters. (I recently had a bad experience with a potential therapist, on when simply asking them more about themselves they abruptly put a wall between us and cut me off. I felt disconnect and an unwillingness to spend time with them and so didn't go ahead with the therapy). In a space where intimacy is needed to help one feel safe about revealing inner thoughts, why would a therapist close themselves off to that?
I enjoyed the illicit and complex tales of Yalom's own experiences in psychotherapy, they are often a long musing in which gems of knowledge can be found, rather than having a direct question and answer style for the reader. He doesn't hold back on his feelings and thoughts. However, I was very confused when his tales turned to fiction writing though and struggled to quite find the purpose in the very last story (a cursed cat... um what?...) I understand how messages can be transcribed through tales but I preferred to hear him write as himself. It took a moment to realise that he was indeed writing in fiction and was disappointed when I realised the tales were not real and went down a very odd woo-woo route.
Overall the stories in this book are very engaging and I found Yalom a very engaging writer. He is honest about the learning process and struggles of understanding patients and he shows the importance of his determination. I also really stand with his views on humanistic and psychodynamic therapy and would honestly like to see this more recognised in therapy today. Therapy isn't a one-way conversation, there must be a relationship to create a feeling of realness, the safety to reveal and to challenge and to question.
I enjoyed the illicit and complex tales of Yalom's own experiences in psychotherapy, they are often a long musing in which gems of knowledge can be found, rather than having a direct question and answer style for the reader. He doesn't hold back on his feelings and thoughts. However, I was very confused when his tales turned to fiction writing though and struggled to quite find the purpose in the very last story (a cursed cat... um what?...) I understand how messages can be transcribed through tales but I preferred to hear him write as himself. It took a moment to realise that he was indeed writing in fiction and was disappointed when I realised the tales were not real and went down a very odd woo-woo route.
Overall the stories in this book are very engaging and I found Yalom a very engaging writer. He is honest about the learning process and struggles of understanding patients and he shows the importance of his determination. I also really stand with his views on humanistic and psychodynamic therapy and would honestly like to see this more recognised in therapy today. Therapy isn't a one-way conversation, there must be a relationship to create a feeling of realness, the safety to reveal and to challenge and to question.
اين كتاب به شكل غيرمنتظره اى به ليست كتاب هاى مورد علاقم اضافه شد ، در حالى كه حتى در ابتدا دودل بودم براى خوندنش.
دوستى دارم كه اكثر كتاب هاى يالوم رو خونده و هميشه فكر ميكردم كتاب هاى بسيار سنگين و پيجيده اى بايد باشن كه ابدا اينطور نيست.
كتاب تشكيل شده از مجموعه ٦ داستان واقعى و تخيلى از تجريبات نويسنده كه به شكل بسيار هنرمندانه اى روايت شده و تاثير عجيبى بر روى خواننده داره.
دوستى دارم كه اكثر كتاب هاى يالوم رو خونده و هميشه فكر ميكردم كتاب هاى بسيار سنگين و پيجيده اى بايد باشن كه ابدا اينطور نيست.
كتاب تشكيل شده از مجموعه ٦ داستان واقعى و تخيلى از تجريبات نويسنده كه به شكل بسيار هنرمندانه اى روايت شده و تاثير عجيبى بر روى خواننده داره.
"Ameddig mi létezünk, a halál nincs jelen, mikor pedig a halál megérkezik, mi nem vagyunk többé."
non è una recensione esaustiva, non datemi retta e se avete questo libro nella tbr leggetelo.
chi ha paragonato Yalom a Sacks probabilmente non ha mai letto l'ultimo, oppure sono io ad avere iniziato il mio viaggio nella scrittura di Yalom con lo scritto sbagliato. sono quasi certa che cercherò qualcos'altro di suo da leggere per potermi fare un'idea più precisa di ciò che penso della sua scrittura. questa volta riesco solo a dire: tanta, tanta noia e termini che - non so se sia colpa del traduttore e dello scritto originale - sembrano fuori luogo, come se Yalom morisse dalla voglia di farsi vedere come uno simpatico e al passo coi tempi. un grande e grosso "bah".
chi ha paragonato Yalom a Sacks probabilmente non ha mai letto l'ultimo, oppure sono io ad avere iniziato il mio viaggio nella scrittura di Yalom con lo scritto sbagliato. sono quasi certa che cercherò qualcos'altro di suo da leggere per potermi fare un'idea più precisa di ciò che penso della sua scrittura. questa volta riesco solo a dire: tanta, tanta noia e termini che - non so se sia colpa del traduttore e dello scritto originale - sembrano fuori luogo, come se Yalom morisse dalla voglia di farsi vedere come uno simpatico e al passo coi tempi. un grande e grosso "bah".
challenging
funny
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informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced