The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

　　Anyone interested in psychotherapy or personal growth will rejoice at The Gift of Therapy, a masterwork from one of the most accomplished psychological thinkers of our day. As an award-winning author of both nonfiction and fiction, and a psychiatrist in practice for 35 years, Yalom imparts his unique wisdom in this remarkable guidebook for successful therapy.

　　At once startlingly profound and irresistibly practical, Yalom's insights—let the patient matter to you; create a n ew kind of therapy for each patient; how and how not to use self-disclosure—will help enrich the therapeutic process for both patient and counselor.

作者簡介

　　Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Lying on the Couch, The Schopenhauer Cure, When Nietzsche Wept, as well as several classic textbooks on psychotherapy, including The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, considered the foremost work on group therapy. The Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University, he divides his practice between Palo Alto, where he lives, and San Francisco, California.