Irvin D. Yalom: La psicoterapia y la condición humana. (Irvin D. Yalom: On Psychotherapy and the Human Condition)
Reviewed by Mark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah -- Críticas, 6/15/2008
Josselson, Ruthellen.
U.S.: Jorge Pinto Books. 2008 153p. ISBN 0-9801147-4-8. pap. $19.95. BIOGRAPHY
This Spanish translation of the 2007 English-language publication by the same publisher is part of the series “Working Biographies,” which aims to introduce a field or discipline through an examination of one of its major innovators. Josselson, a professor of psychology at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA, focuses on the ideas of one of the leading scholars in the area of psychotherapy: Irvin D. Yalom, a Stanford University professor. Born of Russian immigrant parents and raised in Washington, DC, he is probably best known for developing a then innovative approach to psychotherapy that he called “interpersonal learning,” which generally occurred with the formation of a personal relationship between the therapist and the patient. His ideas went against 1960s practice, which encouraged a cool and distant relationship between doctor and patient. His The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, now in its fifth edition, remains an important book in the field. This personal look at the evolution of his ideas, combined with a transcription of parts of the author’s interview with Yalom, is well written, making what could have been a technical volume readable to those with limited experience in the field. It will be of interest to libraries with collections in psychology and medicine.
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