V Feedback:Goal is to grow the public self (Johari’s window) and shrink the unconscious self. V Therapist disclosure begets client disclosure. V Effective therapy consist of an alternating sequence of evocation and experiencing of affect followed by analysis and integration of affect. V Share feelings and let the other person know how you are experiencing them in the relationship. V Acknowledge errors let them see your human side. V Let patients’ matter to you: Let them enter your mind, change you and don’t conceal this from them. V Everything can be used in the “here and now”.

V Groups are much more engaged in the here and now as opposed to old baggage. V The personal problems of the patient will manifest themselves in the here and now. V Capitalize on immediate events in the therapeutic hour. Patients need to be fully understood, this requires unconditional positive regard and genuineness.Engage patient in the relationship by discussing feeling s about the therapeutic relationship and interactions that take place.Hazards and Privileges of being a therapistĬhapter Highlights Therapist –Patient Relationship.The book addresses interventions in the following order A heightened sensibility to existential issues deeply influences the nature of the relationship of the therapist and patient and affects every therapy session.Therapy should be relationship driven not theory driven!.What do the words tell us about the nature of the relationship between the parties engaged in the interaction?.Process:meaning the interpersonal relationship between the patient and therapist Four ultimate concerns confronted with the givens of existence: All addressed in the chaptersĬontent and Process are the two major things to look at in terms of existential psychotherapy Assumes that unconscious forces influence conscious functioning. Existential psychotherapy = A dynamic therapeutic approach that focuses on concerns rooted in existence. Yalom has done extensive work individually and also with groups.He works from an existential and interpersonal framework.Existentialism with his individual clients and interpersonal in the groups.With groups he works off the assumption that patients fall into despair because of their inability to develop and sustain gratifying interpersonal relationships.When operating from an existential frame of reference he works from the assumption that patients fall into despair as a result of a confrontation with harsh facts of the human condition. Yalom draws on his 45 years of clinical practice and comes up with a collection of his most passionate categories of interest.In this book he attempts to gift to the new generation of therapists his pearls of wisdom from those years by selecting 85 categories of subjects that come up in a therapy practice and elaborating on his successful interventions in these areas.ĭr.

Irvin yalom the gift of therapy