Refreshing, thoughtful, still so relevant after all the years since it was first published. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! This precise piece of commentary struck me. ."" ( Log Out / Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy offers a keen insight on ten patients, from all walks of life, who turned to therapy, “all ten were suffering the common problems of everyday life: loneliness, self-contempt, impotence, migraine headaches, sexual compulsivity, obesity, hypertension, grief, a consuming love obsession, mood swings, depression. I went through a turmoil of emotions reading her story, and came out of it with a changed perspective of my own. But, for a time, that was all right: I liked the obsession and savored it afresh again and again. The longest piece, deservingly so. And probably the most fascinating aspect of Yalom's case studies is the view we have of Yalom as therapist. by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 6, 1989. I want to live forever. LOVE'S EXECUTIONER. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. All this power that Matthew has—you’ve given it to him—every bit of it!” In another case, involving a man who suffers from impotence, Yalom confides that during their first session, he was growing ""edgy. My timing had been thrown off. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry Trouble signing in? First things first - this is not a self-help book. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I want to be young again. Whose death will make me truly dead?”. NONFICTION. Yalom, a respected Stamford therapist, claims to offer these examples not to titillate but to educate. “What goes on in another person’s mind, someone you never even see, who probably isn’t even aware of your existence, who is caught up in his own life struggles, doesn’t change the person you are.”. 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[…] arc of the person’s life, like what I so cherished in Momma and the Meaning of Life & Love’s Executioner, where the stories span multiple weeks, months, etc… So with these ten stories, I was always left […]. Yalom writes his patients with the utmost respect and interest. For those who can't get enough of therapy, Yalom (coauthor, Every Day Gets a Little Closer, 1974) provides an emergency supplement here: ten actual cases as they played out in his office. I had originally started Irvin D. Yalom’s newest release Becoming Myself, where he mentioned this collection of stories which sounded more fitting because my attention span was slight at the time. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. We had only begun our first session, and there was much more I wanted to know. Buy a Coffee for nat (bookspoils) with Ko-fi.com/bookspoils. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. © Copyright 2020 Kirkus Media LLC. For those who can't get enough of therapy, Yalom (coauthor, Every Day Gets a Little Closer, 1974) provides an emergency... by ( Log Out / It was only after several days that I realized I was missing everything on the trip—the beauty of the beach, the lush and exotic vegetation, even the thrill of snorkeling and entering the underwater world. … Note: I’m an Amazon Affiliate. As the reader you are not quite sure why Thelma, at this stage, has decided to do this. Though the problems may be considered “common problems of everyday life,” Love’s Executioner made them seem like anything but. I had been absent. All this rich reality had been blotted out by my obsession. Thelma, now 70 years old has presented for therapy while in crises (suicidal). Love his honesty, self-awareness, and humility, in describing the ups and downs of being a therapist. ""Though I was gradually entering her experiential world, and growing accustomed to hyperbolic assessments of Matthew, I was truly staggered."" Having said that, I found it challenging in places, in a way that was both thought provoking and helpful. “You are you, you have your own existence, you continue to be the person you are from moment to moment, from day to day. Speaking of which, this note on experiencing “love at first sight” was so satisfying to agree on: “You don’t know this person. We see the art of psychotherapy, and thus living, practiced by a master, both as a writer and a guide to how to midwife psychological wisdom. RELEASE DATE: Sept. 6, 1989. Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. ‧ It contains the wisdom of a master existential therapist, who is also a gifted storyteller (Love's Executioner is non-fiction, based on real case histories, but it reads like fine fiction). I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. ""We are all of us in this together."" Other reviewers here have pointed out that Love's Executioner is must reading for therapists and those undergoing psychotherapy. Anxious and thoroughly fed up with myself, I entered therapy (yet again), and after several hard months, my mind was my own again and I was able to return to the exciting business of experiencing my life as it was happening.”. Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy offers a keen insight on ten patients, from all walks of life, who turned to therapy, “all ten were suffering the common problems of everyday life: loneliness, self-contempt, impotence, migraine headaches, sexual compulsivity, obesity, hypertension, grief, a consuming love obsession, mood swings, depression. My attention was riveted to her. ""We therapists simply cannot cluck with sympathy and exhort patients to struggle resolutely with their problems,"" he writes. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Categories: If you’re interested in buying Love’s Executioner, just click on the image below to go through my link. I’d like to mention in particular one story that started off the collection on a bang for me with Thelma, “a depressed, suicidal, seventy-year-old woman,” who for the past eight years “could not relinquish her obsessive love for a man thirty-five years younger.”, “Perhaps the function of the obsession was simply to provide intimacy: it bonded her to another—but not to a real person, to a fantasy.”. That’s when I will be truly dead—when I exist in no one’s memory. Try to see that. And what is existential psychotherapy?
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