2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Vyacheslav Khalansky, psychologist, psychotherapist
Review of the book "Liar on the couch" by Irwin Yalom
Does psychotherapy help a person? Maybe if you tell a friend / girlfriend in a cafe or restaurant, everything will work out? Maybe time will heal? Yalom would answer: "Guys, stop living in an illusion, nothing goes by itself and is not solved, go and solve problems with your shrink."
Liar on the Couch is a novel about truth and untruth. And now, in order.
1. Yalom bravely ventured to penetrate not only the closed door of psychotherapists, but also into their inner world, thoughts. Patients lie, and therapists can also lie to themselves. Truth can be liberating, but it takes time and therapeutic dialogue. Yalom ventured to tell the truth about everyone. United everyone before the truth. There is no advanced elite. Everyone lies, not everyone is ready to change, but those who are not ready pay the price.
2. You can convince yourself that you are a professional, maybe even the best in the world. Colleagues are no match for you. But as soon as you think so, your end as a professional begins. This is Marshall's description. He is a seasoned psychoanalyst. I “dug” my teacher supervisor, in therapy he admires himself more as a therapist, money is something he strives for no more than power. As a result, he suffered from fraudsters for 135 thousand dollars, and in the light of his fame, he did not notice how his wife left for another man. Shoemaker without shoes.
3. Simur Trotter - an elderly venerable psychoanalyst, now they would say "the most expensive" psychotherapist. In his practice, he committed a violation of ethical norms and entered into sexual relations with the patient, for which he was removed from the post of President of the Association. Marshall got him hooked, of course, but even the most venerable professionals fail. Seymour has not passed the test of authority. When you thought that you have achieved everything, you fail not only as a professional, but also as a person in the full sense of the word.
4. There is one more character, one more psychotherapist - Ernest Lesch. Obviously, this is the prototype of Yalom. Among previous venerable scholars and his teachers, he seeks his own path. For him, openness is important (both on the part of the patient, also on the part of the therapist), which contradicted the canons of psychoanalysts at that time; also the truth is important to him, whatever it may be. Lesh took a position of truth in relation to patients. He is a hard worker, looking for his own path in the profession (he finds it in an existential approach to psychotherapy), is not content with selfishness, he is looking for answers to difficult questions. He admits to the patient that he likes her, but remains faithful to the truth and only the truth as a professional and a person.
This is a bestseller. The plot is undoubtedly intriguing. This book is about truth, relationships, tragedy, pain, hope.
Recommended:
Depression. An Excerpt From The Book "Stop, Who Leads?" Nominee For The "Enlightener" Award Dmitry Zhukov
On the eve of the autumn blues, together with the publishing house Alpina Non-Fiction, we are publishing an excerpt from the book Stop, Who Leads? Biology of human behavior and other animals”nominee for the“Enlightener”award, Doctor of Biological Sciences Dmitry Zhukov.
The History Of Writing The Book "Psycho Means Soul"
As far back as I can remember, I "ran away" into books … She ran away from everything that she did not want to see in real life, and looked for consolation in them. Dreams came true there, many different lives could be lived there.
"In Our Time, No One Dies From Bitter Truths - The Choice Of Antidotes Is Too Great." - Irwin Yalom
Each psychologist (psychotherapist), I think, has its own directions of development, certain concepts and famous scientists predecessors on which they keep an alignment. For me, such a person is Irwin Yalom, a professor at Snenford University, one of the founders of existential psychotherapy.
Review Of Verena Kast's Book "Sisyphus": Filling Life With Meanings
End of the article. Start here - Verena Cast draws our attention to another aspect - namely, that Sisyphus is engaged in the hard work of pulling a stone up a mountain only half of his time. Then, when the stone breaks down and rolls down, it also comes down.
Review Of The Book "Sisyphus" By Verena Cast (Part 1. Who Cheated Death)
The book of the Swiss psychotherapist Verena Cast “Sisyphus. Holding and releasing in the middle of life. " Through the myth of Sisyphus, the author examines aspects of the life of a middle-aged person (who is in the midlife crisis), the typical experiences of this person:
