"Existential Psychotherapy"

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This paper looks at Yalom's book, "Existential Psychotherapy," and how he responds to criticisms aimed at the field of psychotherapy. It discusses the merits and qualities of the book and argues that book successfully dismisses the complaints against psychotherapy. The paper contends that Yalom's use of analogies, clinical studies, research, and his own hypotheses and conclusions, convincingly ties psychotherapy and existentialism together.

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"A constant complaint about psychotherapy from experts in other fields of study is psychotherapy's so-called "narrow focus." For instance, psychotherapy, critics complain, does not deal with the grander issues of fear of life and death. Irvin Yalom's book, "Existential Psychotherapy," dismisses these complaints by gearing his successful book around the four ultimate concerns of life: death, freedom, existential isolation and meaninglessness."

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