Love’s Executioner Irvin Yalom, the author of Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, is a book about ten different clients and their stories. In each chapter, Yalom discusses the time spent with each client in therapy. He uses this book to give people an insight into what he faced as a therapist. My purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the theories he used throughout the book, and point out a few of the times each theory was used. Throughout Love’s Executioner, Irvin Yalom uses several different theories when working with patients. Yalom is especially famous for his work with existential theory. He tends to focus on the patient’s meaning to their suffering as well as helping them take responsibility for their actions.
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I would argue he is similar because, in my opinion, he likes to be in charge and lead the discussions. This is often a characteristic of cognitive therapists. Along with this, Yalom does not put up with excuses from clients. He doesn’t like when they beat around the bush and avoid the question. For example, in “Two Smiles”, Yalom doesn’t really deal with Marie’s lack of effort in the beginning of therapy. He also doesn’t put up with clients’ crap throughout most of the book. Even though Yalom likes to be the “expert” in most situations, there are times when he is more helpful and encouraging which is not a cognitive therapist trait. Along with each of these different therapies and theories, Yalom has a few factors that he believes make a good …show more content…
The biggest problem I had with Yalom is that he was, in many ways, a misogynist. He didn’t always show it to the clients, but some of the remarks he made to his clients, women especially were so wrong. I feel like he didn’t treat his clients equally as he should have. I also both liked and disliked the fact that he was so straightforward with the clients. Sometimes it was helpful, and sometimes it was a little too much. There were two major parts I liked of this book. First, I appreciated that he talked the readers through his thought process with each client. I felt this was very helpful to my learning. Second, most of the stories were extremely interesting and fun to
I would argue he is similar because, in my opinion, he likes to be in charge and lead the discussions. This is often a characteristic of cognitive therapists. Along with this, Yalom does not put up with excuses from clients. He doesn’t like when they beat around the bush and avoid the question. For example, in “Two Smiles”, Yalom doesn’t really deal with Marie’s lack of effort in the beginning of therapy. He also doesn’t put up with clients’ crap throughout most of the book. Even though Yalom likes to be the “expert” in most situations, there are times when he is more helpful and encouraging which is not a cognitive therapist trait. Along with each of these different therapies and theories, Yalom has a few factors that he believes make a good …show more content…
The biggest problem I had with Yalom is that he was, in many ways, a misogynist. He didn’t always show it to the clients, but some of the remarks he made to his clients, women especially were so wrong. I feel like he didn’t treat his clients equally as he should have. I also both liked and disliked the fact that he was so straightforward with the clients. Sometimes it was helpful, and sometimes it was a little too much. There were two major parts I liked of this book. First, I appreciated that he talked the readers through his thought process with each client. I felt this was very helpful to my learning. Second, most of the stories were extremely interesting and fun to