A Critical Examination of Irvin D. Yalom's Single-Session Consultations

It is the Relationship that Heals
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-07942-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

This book explores the single-session work done by Irving Yalom and considers the implications of this work for the current theory and practice of single-session therapy (SST).

 

 Due to failing memory and decreasing stamina as he aged, Yalom eventually decided that if he was to continue to offer help to patients, he could only do so by offering them single-session consultations. While it was perhaps reluctant single-session work, it coincided with the continued rise of SST starting with Moshe Talmon in 1990. The book examines Yalom’s work against the growing literature on Single-Session Therapy, covering both what single-session therapists can learn from Yalom’s consultations as well as what they would not want to implement. Dryden closely examines Yalom’s work in these sessions through a single session mindset and tracks how it impacts the development of SST.

 

This book will be of interest to any single-session practitioners as well as those scholars and followers of Yalom.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dryden, Windy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Kognitivismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Chapter 1. Yalom: A Reluctant Single-Session Therapist  Chapter 2. Yalom’s Position on What Was Therapeutic About His Single-Session Consultations  Chapter 3. The Sessions and Post-Consultation Patient Feedback  Chapter 4. What Single-Session Therapists Can Learn from Yalom’s Single-Session Consultations and What They Probably Would Not Wish to Implement  Chapter 5. Examining Yalom’s Work Through the Lens of the Single-Session Therapy Mindset  Chapter 6. Final Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Windy Dryden is in part-time clinical and consultative practice and is an international authority on rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) and single-session therapy (SST). He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 45 years and is the author and editor of over 285 books.