Dr. Yalom's Case Study

The “fear” of women is one of the novel’s most central features. As most of the male patients in the novel have been damaged by relationships with overpowering women. The hospital, run by women, treats only male patients, showing how women have the ability to emasculate even the most masculine of men. The narrator of the novel, Chief Bromden, witnesses the

A phenomenological focus in existential counselling relates to the degree in which a therapist attempts to stay with the lived experiences of the client (Spinelli, 1989). The phenomenological method, as explained by Spinelli (1989), has a foundation of three main rules to guide the therapist. The first rule of ‘epoche’, recommends putting aside any prejudices and biases, as well as expectations or pre-conceived judgements that may arise when interacting with a client (Spinelli, 1989). This often requires the use of bracketing. Spinelli, highlights that completely bracketing perspectives is impossible (Cooper, 2003), However, the main factor relates to a willingness to bracket perspectives. For example, in the “Love’s Executioner”, Yalom (2012, p. 3) describes having disbelief that his client of seventy years could be in love but attempts to bracket this thought by maintaining objectivity throughout the encounter. The second rule called description, involves a focus on description over explanation (Cooper, 2003). Therapists are recommended to avoid theories and explanations of the experience, instead making a focus of staying with the lived experience as it actually is (Spinelli, 1989). For example, in “The Wrong One Died”, Yalom (2012, p. 90) avoids an explanation of what his clients dream means, in favour of asking the client to describe the feelings that arose throughout the

In the story, “Loves Executioner”, Yalom treats and old woman named “Thelma” that is overly obsessed with a man named Matthew, her former therapist from ten years ago. Yalom feeling though that he is drawn to the facets of her dilemma decides to do everything he can to empower Thelma move past the obsessions that had been wrecking havoc on her mental health. Although Thelma’s love obsession with her therapist, and her subjective experiences on life of what is preventing her from living in the present, Yalom attempts to treat a 70-year-old woman only to learn that being love executioner more complicated as he had anticipated.

The antagonists in this book are his patient from whom he elicits permission before using them. The author uses scenarios from some of his therapy sessions to evoke alertness in his audience as well as to provide a practical framework with which they can relate or be guided as therapists or future therapists.

This interaction between the therapist and client led to a significant intervention. When Perls asks Gloria what her foot is doing she laughs quite a bit and says that she's afraid that he's going to notice everything that she does. Perls intervenes by pointing out that Gloria is laughing (which is incongruent with what she is saying and feeling). These and many other behaviors lead Perls to confront Gloria by calling her a phony. It is at this point that Gloria expresses her feelings in a genuine way. She expresses verbally that she is angry and she behaves as though she is angry. This is the first time during the session that her affect is congruent with her mood. This is a perfect example of what Corey meant when he wrote "[Perls] was a master at intentionally frustrating clients to enhance their awareness (2009, p. 200).

During the second session, the family was provided individual opportunities to relate his or her perceptions of the struggles in the family. Using Claudia as the identified patient, the family related struggles directly associated with Claudia’s behavior (Nichols, 2013, p. 15). Whitaker (1978) conceptualized the issues in a different perspective stating, “sounds like Claudia is in charge of getting Mom and Dad to start fighting, and you and Laura are in charge of helping them stop” (p. 11). Whitaker also indicated the parallels involving Carolyn’s anger at Claudia for hiding in her room and David’s propensity to hide in his study (p. 11). Using the unconscious frame of reference from session one, another conceptualization that was presented was that of Don’s willingness to talk as the reason that the family had not wanted to bring him to the first session (p. 12).

In this story, it fascinated me when it made reference about the therapist needing to be transferable to the mother or father role in the family regardless of the therapist’s sex. In this case the clients are the traditional mother and father with two male co-therapists. Whitaker was seen taking on the maternal role when addressing Carolyn’s childhood and current issues with her mother while Napier observed the conversation. This was a great part of the book which portrayed isomorphism. This idea of being able to stay neutral as well as to identify with the role of mother or father adds another layer of complexity to help guide the context of the situation.

12/05/16 L. Freeman met L. Cline, M. Bromfield, and Georga for court. Georga was very nervous, anxious and uncomfortable; her affect was down and her mood was sad. Georga wanted to know about how court would go and if she would have to see her mother. She spoke about how her mother was always late and how she was upset with her for not going to rehab.

Marilyn, so caught up with not following her dreams to become a doctor, began effecting the whole family slowly from the day she returned back home. She also never tells her husband James how she really felt about there marriage. Marilyn felt her life and dreams was over because she gotten married and had children. “ it was a sign, Marilyn decided for her it was too late. But it wasn’t too late for Lydia.” (N.g page 122) Marilyn regretted getting married and having children before she finisher her career. She promised herself she would spend the rest of her life guiding Lydia towards “perfection.” Unknowingly Marilyn pushed Lydia more and more into being a doctor like she wanted to be. She never asked Lydia if being a doctor was what

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In the story, the narrator’s concerns are constantly being dismissed by her husband, John. Due to the fact that he is a man and a physician, he is held in high esteem within society; therefore, he

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It was the way Thelma approach therapy all this years what had made it so hard for any sort of improvement. She had a clear idea of what could help her get better and being truly upfront about it was not really one of them. No wonder why the therapy with the other doctors did not work out, she was hiding the biggest and most important reason of all for her obsessions. Dr. Yalom interpret this as an error on the other therapist, even imagined they had little experience in the practice and that is way they couldn’t see what was really tormenting her. By Thelma hiding her true emotions, fears and wants from Dr. Yalom it made it hard to build a relationship of trust between therapist-patient.

In the story, “Loves Executioner”, Yalom treats and old woman named “Thelma” that is overly obsessed with her a former therapist from ten years ago named Matthew. Yalom feeling though that he is drawn to the facets of her dilemma decides to do everything he can to empower Thelma move past the obsessions that had been wrecking havoc on her mental health. Although Thelma’s love obsession with her therapist, and her subjective experiences on life of what is preventing her from living in the present, Yalom attempts to treat a 70-year-old woman only to learn that being love executioner more complicated as he had anticipated.

In addition, the wife believes in Christian Science, so she doesn’t believe in medicine. Being that her husbands a doctor, she has no respect for his profession. Despite their differences, Nick felt that his father respected his mother. Below is a quote taking place right after an argument between the parents: