TERM PAPER:
LOVE EXECUTIONER (AND OTHER TALE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY)

In this Fascinating book Love’s Executioner and other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom, we can appreciated different techniques used in a session of Psychotherapy, this book was easy to read and understand and especially it was very addictive, making it the perfect tool and inspiration for psychology students who are starting to appreciate this career more deeply. There are ten different cases offered in this book, some patients share similar symptoms but still have different mental dysfunctions. Out of the ten cases I picked three: * Love’s Executioner (Chapter 1) * I Never Thought It Would Happen to Me (Chapter 5) * Therapeutic monogamy (Chapter 9)

I.) LOVE’S EXECUTIONER: In this first Chapter we read about Thelma Hilton, a seventy-year-old woman, she has been suffering of severe depression for the past twenty years, but eight years ago she had an affair with one of his therapist, Mathew, this affair lasted twenty-seven days, before Matthew finally put an end to this, due to Mathews own mental health. But Thelma has not been able to move on, she still think they could get back together. She has been obsessed about it, and even though she has seen other doctors before Dr. Yalom, this is the first time she is talking about Mathew to somebody else. Thelma Hilton seeks therapy once again after a failed suicide attempt and almost twenty years of therapy without any satisfactory results for her severe depression, with an underlying condition for the last eight years, of obsessive compulsive behavior towards her “relationship with one of her therapists name Mathew, with whom she had and affair that lasted twenty seven days. Thelma’s behavior worsen due to this obsession especially cause ever since the relationship ended Thelma never came forward with this information