Irvin Pioneers of Human Behaviour - Irvin Yalom Paperback

He learned his trade through a hole in a wall about a foot square.Late 1950s, Johns Hopkins. Behind the aperture sat psychiatric residents taking turns to watch a therapy group next door. Most did their required stint and moved on. One of them kept coming back, week after week, long after the rotation ended - trying to work out what, exactly, was doing those people good.Irvin D. Yalom spent the next sixty years on that question, and the answer was not the one his training predicted. Not the interpretation. Not the insight. Not the diagnosis. What healed people, he came to argue, was what happened between them - and the most useful thing a therapist could do was stop discussing a patient's life outside the room and start attending to the relationship inside it.He made that case in a textbook still in print in its sixth edition more than half a century later, and then in novels and story collections that carried it to readers who will never sit in a therapy group. This book follows the man behind both - from the son of immigrant grocers who was rejected by nineteen of the twenty medical schools he applied to, through the study of group harm that his critics and admirers are still arguing over, to the late books written while his own memory began to flake away.Inside: - The eleven therapeutic factors - what they explain, and what happened when researchers tried to measure them- The here-and-now: the working posture that outlived the theory, and why it is harder than it sounds- The 1971 casualty study he published against his own field's interests, and the sixteen people it counted- Death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness - the four concerns he built a therapy around- Why he refused, repeatedly and in print, to found a school anyone could be certified in- Love's Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, and the argument that a case story can be literature- The ethics of writing about real patients - including the apology he published himself- What the evidence actually supports, and where the method has outrun it- Loneliness, screens, and mortality: where his ideas land now Also here: the classified advertisement that got him his job at Stanford; the year he spent in Hampstead studying a method he disliked, mutually; the 100,000 free copies of his Nietzsche novel that Vienna gave away in a single campaign; and the patient who co-wrote a book with him in which the two of them describe the same hour and frequently disagree about what mattered in it.Written for the general reader, not the seminar room. Verified sources, no invented scenes, and the criticism given its due - including the criticism of him.Part of Pioneers of Human Behaviour - gateway books on the minds that shaped us.