Irvin Yalom Puns

Κατηγορία: Ψυχολογία

Συγγραφέας: Irvin D. Yalom

Έτος Έκδοσης: 1992, Επανέκδοση: 2011

Εκδόσεις: Άγρα

Βαθμολογία: 10/10

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Υπόθεση: Η ιστορία του βιβλίου διαδραματίζεται το 1882 στην Βενετία. Πρωταγωνιστές είναι ο ψυχίατρος Γιόχαν Μπρόιερ, ο Σίγκμουντ Φρόυντ και ο σπουδαίος φιλόσοφος Φρήντριχ Νίτσε. Ο Μπρόιερ συναντιέται τυχαία με μια πολύ ελκυστική και επιβλητική νεαρή γυναίκα την Λού Σαλόμε, η οποία ήταν πρώην αγαπημένη του Νίτσε. Σκοπός της συνάντησης αυτής είναι η αρρώστια του Νίτσε. Έτσι λοιπόν η Σαλομέ αναφέρει στον ψυχίατρο Μπρόιερ τις συχνές ημικρανίες και τις λυποθημίες του φιλόσοφου καθώς και την τάση του προς αυτοκτονία και τον παρακαλεί να αναλάβει την θεραπεία του. Η Σαλόμε δίνει κάτι χειρόγραφα έγγραφα γραμμένα από τον Νίτσε στον Μπρόιερ για να καταλάβει ο εν λόγω ψυχίατρος πόσο σπουδαίος φιλόσοφος είναι και πόσο κρίμα θα ήταν αν βάλει τέλος στην ζωή του. Φυσικά ο Μπρόιερ διαβάζοντας τα έγγραφα αυτά μαγεύεται από την ρητορική και την φιλοσοφία του Νίτσε και αποφασίζει να τον αναλάβει. Το πρόβλημα είναι ότι ο Νίτσε είναι περήφανος και δεν θέλει να παραδεχτεί ότι είναι άρρωστος ούτε να πάει σε ψυχίατρο. Στην πραγματικότητα πιστεύει ότι αυτή του η μελαγχολία τον βοηθάει στο να είναι δημιουργικός και αναπτύζει την φιλοσοφική του σκέψη. Έτσι λοιπόν για να τον πλησιάσει ο Μπρόιερ καταστρώνει ένα σχέδιο.

Συμπέρασμα: Όλοι γνωρίζουμε την ιδιαίτερη σχέση ανάμεσα σε έναν ψυχολόγο και τον ασθενή του. Τι γίνεται όμως όταν ο ασθενής τυγχάνει να είναι ο Νίτσε ένας από τους σημαντικότερους φιλοσόφους του 19ου αιώνα; και τι γίνεται όταν αντί να θεραπεύει ο ψυχίατρος τον ασθενή, θεραπεύει ο ασθενής στην προκειμμένη περίπτωση ο Νίτσε τον ψυχίατρο; Ανιστροφή ρόλων και ψυχολογικά θέματα συνθέτουν το τοπίο αυτού του βιβλίου.

As a student of Nietzsche, Wagner, Lou Salome, Breuer and Freud, I find this novel as incredibly interesting, and largely historically accurate. I've spent several hours today captivated by this book, and continually checking historical accuracy. Have you read it, and what did you think? The author is a professor of Psychoanalysis at Stanford...

Last year I gave my friend Yaloms Love's executioner as a birthday present and she loved it. Any other book ideas that have a french edition???

Been browsing through some of his stuff more recently and trying to decide on a good starting book to get a bigger idea of his theories. I’m more interested in the philosophical side than his clinical work, but understand that most of his books will probably have both.

What book would you suggest to start with?

I love Irvin Yalom - one of the best writers of all time. I read all of his books multiple times and find myself being astonished by everything I learn and realise while reading them (especially lying on the couch of love's executioner). Does anyone have a recommendation of books that are equally exciting yet change your world view in this absolutely amazing non judgemental way?

• DOI/PMID/ISBN: ISBNs: 978-0-4650-2147-5 (hardcover), 978-0-7867-2319-5 (mobi), 978-1-5416-4744-2 (ebook). I'm looking for Epub, as in the link

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Today I finished "When Nietzsche wept" by Irvin Yalom. I really like that this book presents complex ideas in such an easy way. Although it is a super slow-paced book, philosophically oriented discussion between Nietzsche and Breuer are exceptionally absorbing and thought-provoking. Has anyone else read this book as I found only a few posts related this book? What is your opinion about it?

Irvin Yalom, a gifted an influential psychotherapist, write a lot on existentialism. While I have not read his works that explicitly address the topic, I recently studied 'The Gift of Therapy', which, as a student going to psychotherapy school soon, was very meaningful to me. While most of the book is about the process of psychotherapy itself, there are a few chapters directly concerning 'existential psychotherapy', which is a field he was instrumental in the formation of. (As a side note, he takes most of his philosophical worldviews from Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud, Rogers, and others.)

I wanted to share what he has to say concerning something that strikes deeply into what it means to live existentially. He aligns himself with Heidegger who makes the distinction between 'ordinary existence' and 'ontological existence'. The former being the type of living that is concerned with every day tasks and mundane things: basically, quite a forgetful existence. The latter is when one enters into the awareness of Being itself, and is at awe with existence. This, Yalom states, is where true therapy begins (but I'd like to add, true living, as well). He states that we gain access to this realm when our awareness bumps into certain facts: death, freedom, the necessity to make a decision, responsibility, isolation, and meaning.

It is the role of the therapist to remove obstacles in the individual's life that are forbidding direct confrontation with the "givens of existence". Therefore, it is not a necessarily 'positive' (additive) role, but a 'negative' (subtractive) role that the therapist takes. I think this is fertile ground for our own lives, however, and we can facilitate the 'therapist' within us, removing obstacles from confronting these facts of life, allowing us to live more fully and deeply.

The question that follows is, What is left to remove? Is it an addiction you are having that is distracting you from confronting these "givens"? If someone close to you has died, are you avoiding thinking deeply and heavily on this, and maybe your own inevitable obliteration? Are you compulsively avoiding taking responsibility by relying on other people to make decisions in your life? Do you block out that deafening silence of solitude by TV, music, social media, or other distractions?

Of course, the reader does not have to respond. But I just wanted to share these thoughts and then pose an open-ended question that has dominated most of my thinking r

Just finished reading staring at the sun; overcoming the terror of death....

Wow.

Not only did it help shift my perspective on death, it also shifted my perspective on life.

Highly recommend it if you have death anxiety.

I am aware there are many books out there about assertiveness, how to get better at saying no etc. However, I am looking for something (a book, a chapter, an article) that explores the different levels of assertiveness in people, and why we are the way we are. I would ideally like to read something that considers examples of childhood situations that influence our assertiveness in later life.

Last year I’ve read that book during a hard period in my life and it comforted me like no books before (or after) it. Does anyone know a book similar to it? :(

Thank you! 🤘🏻

Trying to expand my horizons a bit further. Anything else similar/things you personally found meaningful?

I'm familiar with the aboves works, looking for new similar great authors. Thank you.

sigh....

now i gotta kill all these other people too...?

I just got done reading this and wanted to share, as I found the book really rewarding. This is no lazy self-help text. Dr. Yalom, emiritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford, delves into what he terms "the existential approach" to psychotherapy.

The book is focused around four major existential topics that he believes are the root causes of psychopathology: death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness. While weaving these concerns together, he asserts that we avoid thinking about them because they invoke a sense of dread and anxiety, but confronting them either head-on or obliquely through a therapeutic approach is absolutely critical in the quest for authenticity.

It's an engaging read; long and written with the professional in mind, but easy enough for the layperson (like me) to understand.

Thought this sub might be interested since it's provided a synthesized take and professional application of some of the philosophical ideas typically discussed here.

[Here's] (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21032.Existential_Psychotherapy) the link to it on Goodreads.

Also, first post. (Yay!)