The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapistsand their Patients/ Irvind D. Yalom english

Chapter 1 Remove the Obstacles to Growth
Chapter 2 Avoid Diagnosis (Except for Insurance Companies)
Chapter 3 Therapist and Patient as "Fellow Travelers"
Chapter 5 Be Supportive
Chapter 6 Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window
Chapter 7 Teach Empathy
Chapter 8 Let the Patient Matter to You
Chapter 9 Acknowledge Your Errors
Chapter 10 Create a New Therapy for Each Patient
Chapter 11 The Therapeutic Act, Not the Therapeutic Word
Chapter 12 Engage in Personal Therapy
Chapter 13 The Therapist Has Many Patients; The Patient, One Therapist
Chapter 14 The Here-and-Now--Use It, Use It, Use It
Chapter 15 Why Use the Here-and-Now?
Chapter 16 Using the Here-and-Now--Grow Rabbit Ears
Chapter 17 Search for Here-and-Now Equivalents
Chapter 18 Working Through Issues in the Here-and-Now
Chapter 19 The Here-and-Now Energizes Therapy
Chapter 20 Use Your Own Feelings as Data
Chapter 21 Frame Here-and-Now Comments Carefully
Chapter 22 All Is Grist for the Here-and-Now Mill
Chapter 23 Check into the Here-and-Now Each Hour
Chapter 24 What Lies Have You Told Me?
Chapter 25 Blank Screen? Forget It! Be Real
Chapter 26 Three Kinds of Therapist Self-Disclosure
Chapter 27 The Mechanism of Therapy--Be Transparent
Chapter 28 Revealing Here-and-Now Feelings--Use Discretion
Chapter 29 Revealing the Therapist's Personal Life--Use Caution
Chapter 30 Revealing Your Personal Life--Caveats
Chapter 31 Therapist Transparency and Universality
Chapter 32 Patients Will Resist Your Disclosure
Chapter 33 Avoid the Crooked Cure
Chapter 34 On Taking Patients Further Than You Have Gone
Chapter 35 On Being Helped by Your Patient
Chapter 36 Encourage Patient Self-Disclosure
Chapter 37 Feedback in Psychotherapy
Chapter 38 Provide Feedback Effectively and Gently
Chapter 39 Increase Receptiveness to Feedback by Using "Parts"
Chapter 40 Feedback: Strike When the Iron Is Cold
Chapter 41 Talk About Death
Chapter 42 Death and Life Enhancement
Chapter 43 How to Talk About Death
Chapter 44 Talk About Life Meaning
Chapter 45 Freedom
Chapter 46 Helping Patients Assume Responsibility
Chapter 47 Never (Almost Never) Make Decisions for the Patient
Chapter 48 Decisions: A Via Regia into Existential Bedrock
Chapter 49 Focus on Resistance to Decision
Chapter 50 Facilitating Awareness by Advice Giving
Chapter 51 Facilitating Decisions--Other Devices
Chapter 52 Conduct Therapy as a Continuous Session
Chapter 53 Take Notes of Each Session
Chapter 54 Encourage Self-Monitoring
Chapter 55 When Your Patient Weeps
Chapter 56 Give Yourself Time Between Patients
Chapter 57 Express Your Dilemmas Openly
Chapter 58 Do Home Visits
Chapter 59 Don't Take Explanation Too Seriously
Chapter 60 Therapy-Accelerating Devices
Chapter 61 Therapy as a Dress Rehearsal for Life
Chapter 62 Use the Initial Complaint as Leverage
Chapter 63 Don't Be Afraid of Touching Your Patient
Chapter 64 Never Be Sexual with Patients
Chapter 65 Look for Anniversary and Life-Stage Issues
Chapter 66 Never Ignore "Therapy Anxiety"
Chapter 67 Doctor, Take Away My Anxiety
Chapter 68 On Being Love's Executioner
Chapter 69 Taking a History
Chapter 70 A History of the Patient's Daily Schedule
Chapter 71 How Is the Patient's Life Peopled?
Chapter 72 Interview the Significant Other
Chapter 73 Explore Previous Therapy
Chapter 74 Sharing the Shade of the Shadow
Chapter 75 Freud Was Not Always Wrong
Chapter 76 CBT Is Not What It's Cracked Up to Be ... Or, Don't Be Afraid of the EVT Boogeyman
Chapter 77 Dreams--Use Them, Use Them, Use Them
Chapter 78 Full Interpretation of a Dream? Forget It!
Chapter 79 Use Dreams Pragmatically: Pillage and Loot
Chapter 80 Master Some Dream Navigational Skills
Chapter 81 Learn About the Patient's Life from Dreams
Chapter 82 Pay Attention to the First Dream
Chapter 83 Attend Carefully to Dreams About the Therapist
Chapter 84 Beware the Occupational Hazards
Chapter 85 Cherish the Occupational Privileges