Lash, who enjoys his profession immensely, wants to have a ‘real’ connection with his patients. Ernest Lash’s mind to ‘flexibility’ in the patient-doctor relationship. Trotter, a renegade and yet highly respected therapist, opens Dr. Yalom not only forces the reader to question the patient-therapist model but he also asks that therapy be perceived as a series of journeys made by two individuals together.ĭuring an interview Dr. The characters within the novel interact in a series of reciprocal transmissions, from patient to therapist and back again. Instead, Yalom highlights the fact that any relationship can contain therapeutic dimensions and the reciprocity inherent in all forms of human interaction can turn anybody into a therapist. Although Yalom focuses on challenging preconceived notions of therapy and the medical model, the concept of a therapeutic relationship is not limited to that which exists between the therapist and his patient. The characters within the novel exist as a series of partnerships: therapists and patients, friends and lovers, lawyers and clients. The therapeutic relationship, in all its many complex forms, dominates as the central theme of Irvin D. But you have to be bold and creative enough to fashion a new therapy for each patient’ (7) ‘Forget that crap about the patient not being ready for therapy! It’s the therapy that’s not ready for the patient.
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