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The art of the Psychotherapist
For a teenager who chooses to become a psychotherapist do you think it would be necessary to do psychotherapy himself to see his potential as a therapist and understand if he really cares?
In terms of advice for a future therapist, I think anyone who wants to become a therapist should have a fair amount of personal psychotherapy. Uh, for one, you wanna know yourself better, you wanna be comfortable with your own feelings, and you wanna know what it’s like, uh, to be a recipient of psychotherapy if you’re gonna do psychotherapy to others. And I think it’s good to have different therapists and different approaches. Group therapy, I think is a great way to learn about yourself. So, I would encourage any, would-be therapist to have experience in individual therapy and group therapy.
Why when the psychotherapist tells us something, we can understand it in 5 minutes, while when loved ones say it to us, we refuse to understand it. Since the psychotherapist, for psychotherapy to work, is like a friend, like a person who cares for us, Irvin D. Yalom, Irvin Yalom, Yalom, psychiatry, psychiatrist, clinician, clinical psychiatry, clinical psychiatrist, psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, inpatient, theory and practice, existential psychotherapy, When Nietzsche Wept, When Nietszche Wept, Love's Executioner, Loves Executioner, Lying on the Couch, writer, writers, writing, fiction, story, stories, reading, book, books, author, authors, literary, literature, novel, novels, historic novel, historic novels, novelist, interview, reviews, publications (My full autobiography "Becoming Myself" is available wherever books are sold) Therapy Blog Author Founder & CEO of Psychotherapy.net About Victor: Victor Yalom, Ph.D. is the founder, CEO, resident cartoonist< and occasional blogger of Psychotherapy.net. He has conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China. He no longer maintains an active private practice, but still co-leads a group, and occasionally consults with therapists and individuals. More about Victor and his artwork at sfpsychologist.com. [OnlineCounselingPrograms.com] How has Psychotherapy.net evolved since its inception? [Victor Yalom, Ph.D.] When I finished up grad school in psychology, I realized that I really was still a beginner in terms of doing therapy, so I sought out opportunities to further my skills. As luck would have it, I ended up doing some intensive training with a brilliant psychologist named James Bugental. He was a great teacher, and wrote some very important books, including The Art of the Psychotherapist, but his greatest talent was revealed when he
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I was born in Washington, D.C., June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia (from a small village named Celtz near the Polish border) shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington—a small apartment atop my parents’ grocery store on First and Seaton Street. During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor, black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Ind •
Interview with Victor Yalom, Ph.D.