Yalom, who has always admired this patient for the intelligence that illuminates her features, tells her he’s not repulsed at all. The woman is embarrassed by her hair loss after chemotherapy, and during one of her therapy sessions, she reveals that she would like a sign from Yalom that her baldness does not repulse him. In his recent book The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, psychiatrist and writer Irvin Yalom recalls a poignant encounter with one of his cancer patients. Letting the Patient Matter: Some Thoughts on Irvin Yalom’s View of The Therapeutic Relationship ‘Real treatment, he says, requires an intimacy between therapist and patient that is born from a solid bond of trust.’īelow is an article I came across, written by Barbara Jamison, in which she reviews some of Yalom’s ideas, discussed in his book ‘The Gift of Therapy’ in which he extols the virtues of the therapist’s willingness to reveal himself and fully engage in the therapeutic relationship.
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