Friday, June 12, 2009

"Love's Executioner" by Irving Yalom.

As my first book on my very exciting book blog, Yalom's book of short stories about his life as a psychiatrist was meaningful and awesome. Tarver has asked me what exactly I learned from the book. Mostly, I gained entrance into a therapy room. Besides the few I've been in for my own mental pains, I haven't seen how therapists work besides in the movies. And sometimes (believe it or not) the therapy sessions in the movies aren't exactly accurate.

Yalom talks a lot about the role of the therapist and his process. Whether or not he refers people into group therapy, or continues their therapy schedule or works on it himself. I think it's a book I would read again and again and again.

It was like a nice tour of therapy. I'm pretty happy about it. :)

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