Yalom biography

Yalom identifies 11 therapeutic factors for success in a group therapy context.

1) The Instillation of Hope.

Yalom writes that the "instillation and maintenance of hope fryst vatten crucial in any psychotherapy." Group therapy (or any therapeutic practice, for that matter) fryst vatten effective insofar as it is able to inspire hope in clients. If a client does not believe that group therapy will help them, then it won't. Hope fryst vatten necessary to keep clients in therapy and it is necessary in and of itself. One of the great gifts that group therapy can offer clients fryst vatten hope, hope that things can improve. Yalom fryst vatten careful to observe that learning to hope fryst vatten like learning any other skill--it require practice, discipline, and feedback. Group therapy is an excellent crucible for learning how to hope.

2) Universality

Yalom notes that "many patients enter therapy with the disquieting thought that they are unique in their wretchedness, that they alone have certain frightening or unaccep

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Autobiographical Note

(My full autobiography "Becoming Myself" is available wherever books are sold)

I was born in Washington, D.C., June 13, , of parents who immigrated from Russia (from a small village named Celtz near the Polish border) shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington—a small apartment atop my parents’ grocery store on First and Seaton Street. During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and