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Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner

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more than a revealing look at the minds of disturbed patients, however, it is also a record of the struggles, mistakes, failures, and successes, of the psychotherapist. Indeed, it  is this revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychotherapist as well as to those who wish to gain insight  on the relationship which exists between psychotherapist and patient. No additional sources are listed. PPpsych2.rtf "Loves Executioner": A Review of the Psychotherapeutic  Work of Author Irvin D. Yalom by - 14 Nov 2001 paper properly!  In "Loves Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy" psychotherapist Irvin  D. Yalom reveals some of the most personal reflections of his patients desires and motivations. The book is much more than a revealing look at the minds of disturbed  patients, however, it is also a record of the struggles, mistakes, failures, and successes, of the psychotherapist. Indeed, it is this revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the  book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychotherapist as well as to those who wish to gain insight on the relationship which exists between psychotherapist and patient.  In "Loves Executioner" Yalom relates the real life stories of his interactions with ten of his patients. The anonymity of the patients is  of course maintained and further ensured through the almost fictional approach of Yalom. He admits, in fact, to interchanging patient identities and characteristics and to taking what he terms