📗 Libro en inglés HOUR OF THE HEART

A deeply moving and revealing chronicle from one of the most prominent psychotherapists of our time of working under wholly new circumstances and the challenges and breakthroughs he s made as he takes on patients for one hour one time only Facing memory loss at age 93 as well as the fallout from a pandemic that moved much of daily life online legendary psychotherapist and bestselling author Irvin Yalom was forced to vastly reconsider the shape of his sessions with patients But rather than throw in the towel in the face of change Dr Yalom considered the limitations imposed by these new realities head on and revolutionized his practice Dr Yalom wondered if perhaps his own practice could focus deeply on the work that could be achieved in a one hour one time meeting between patient and practitioner employing an even more concerted use of his here and now approach As he began these one time sessions the beloved veteran therapist found himself freed to reach ever deeper places with new patients on a shortened timeline without the buffer of future appointments In HOUR OF THE HEART Yalom recounts some of these intense life changing consultations exploring an array of human predicaments and his own late career development as a therapist In recounting the