My Advice to Early Career Group Therapists: Irvin Yalom, MD, DLFAGPA

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
  • AGPA Connect 2015 Conference Opening Plenary Address featuring Dr. Irvin Yalom: "My Advice to Early Career Group Therapists and Reminders for those with More Experience on How Learning Never Ends"
    This presentation will cover insights and understandings that Dr. Yalom has acquired through his years as a group therapist and discussion concerning where he believes the field of group therapy is headed.
    Dr. Irvin Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of several highly acclaimed textbooks, including Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. He is also the author of stories and novels related to psychotherapy, including Love’s Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, and The Schopenhauer Cure. His latest non-fiction book is Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.

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  • @jaysunsandnorcal5555
    @jaysunsandnorcal5555 2 года назад +13

    My favorite professor introduced me to Yalom. He's a priceless voice in the art of process groups. Process groups I feel are wonderful for SUD applications, teens, and above all adults with underlying personality flaws that can only be addressed by other people, and not just one therapist. OF course, certain people are not appropriate for process groups. But if you think about friends sitting around being honest with each other, and that being the value, then you see a huge gap in human need for belonging and getting honest feedback from caring people and not like... social media. If Yalom is one thing, he's honest.

  • @rachelw1624
    @rachelw1624 2 года назад

    Thank you from Ireland Dr. Yalom🙏❤️

  • @stppnwlfn
    @stppnwlfn 4 года назад +3

    Such an encouraging video! Thank you

  • @ChadElbandagji
    @ChadElbandagji 3 года назад +3

    Dr Yalom is the real deal

  • @rosecasey6177
    @rosecasey6177 Год назад +1

    Irvin Yalom, MD, is awesome and an inspiration. So very true and love the insight! Thank you!

  • @mr.anindyabanerjee9905
    @mr.anindyabanerjee9905 3 года назад +3

    Wonderful insights shared about Group Psychotherapy by Dr. Yalom. I really liked a lot to discover that as an Existential Therapist, He is thoroughly trained in Psychoanalysis. My Regards🙏🤝

  • @hummingbird2438
    @hummingbird2438 3 года назад +1

    Awesome video..I am so grateful for him.

  • @luciansunset1
    @luciansunset1 Год назад

    Enjoyed this. Yalom is brilliant and funny

  • @TheAl1213
    @TheAl1213 3 года назад +3

    Amazing how prevalent Tele-health has become since the Lockdown. So interesting how that moment of him talking about Talkspace kind of foreshadow what happened.

    • @princemadden339
      @princemadden339 2 года назад

      you probably dont give a shit but does someone know of a way to get back into an instagram account..?
      I stupidly forgot my login password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me.

  • @shabana9923
    @shabana9923 2 года назад +2

    Any patient here? God bless the patients. I hope nobody ever need a therapist; and world become so kind to each other.

  • @marcc.3513
    @marcc.3513 4 года назад +10

    Great talk, thank you for sharing a lot of valuable information and fun to hear those lived stories.
    On a separate note: So interesting how the host shares his nervousness, and discusses courage at the outset, and Dr. Yalom deflects and talks about whether the audience can hear him. After that, he seems to engage the audience more than the host, completely facing them. Maybe it's nothing.

    • @sadiaphillips6702
      @sadiaphillips6702 3 года назад

      Interesting observation. Maybe nothing but who knows?

    • @laylasafar4587
      @laylasafar4587 3 года назад +2

      It's nothing. Yalom is not a genius. I respect his work and ability to deliver but he does not analyze or constructively think about every decision he makes - he's a person, just like you and me.

    • @luciansunset1
      @luciansunset1 Год назад

      ​@@laylasafar4587. Amen.

  • @AlmaPasalic-rg8yt
    @AlmaPasalic-rg8yt 2 года назад

    Moved by the tribute to the late Carl Rogers.

  • @MS-ho7yo
    @MS-ho7yo 3 года назад +1

    Is this support group still in operation?

  • @SanjayKumar-kv5nz
    @SanjayKumar-kv5nz 2 года назад +36

    Can I just say that I am completely enamoured by Yalom and I sincerely believe he is an elder and prophet of our age! I however do hold some reservation when I just see only white faces on a panel giving us their wisdom. I sincerely believe that this wisdom must come from privilege, caucasian history and culture, which may not always directly speak to and smoothly translate to other human experiences and psychologies.

  • @cadmantheaviator
    @cadmantheaviator 3 года назад +2

    Warning for potential patients: They don’t acknowledge harm and the limited research into shows 5-10% have lasting harm. Possibly more. The group isn’t a microcosm of the world it’s a therapists office or a hospital.
    Confrontational and twisting words. It isn’t all about healing. In my experience it’s about therapist power and service led provision.

    • @Hello-zf5lq
      @Hello-zf5lq 3 года назад +1

      They say everything outside of group is the same as inside - that’s BS! It just normalized abnormal interaction inside group. Obviously the rest of the world is not like a group therapist office in many ways.

    • @cadmantheaviator
      @cadmantheaviator 3 года назад +1

      @@Hello-zf5lq Exactly right. They are brainwashed into thinking they know why you want to leave. The really don't. The people who think they know what is best for others are the most dangerous of all.

    • @Hello-zf5lq
      @Hello-zf5lq 3 года назад +1

      @@cadmantheaviator It's a self perpetuating business model - they teach how to teach it in such a way as to get people in and get them to stay in a group for 10+ years. People who don't like group are discredited so that current members don't get turned off or get ideas to leave. It's similar to Trump University how they get people to sign up and stay in the 'program'.

    • @warrensummers2462
      @warrensummers2462 2 года назад +2

      Sounds like you would be great to be in group therapy with! This is such an important thing for a group (and us commenting here) to explore.

    • @robertmurray7279
      @robertmurray7279 4 месяца назад

      I'm aware I'm 3 years late. I'm curious about attending a group and concerned by what your saying. Can you point to some extra outside sources for additional reading?

  • @TheOHenry666
    @TheOHenry666 3 года назад +4

    Ughh...
    Yalom gets much more praise than he actually deserves and talks about himself too much... I thought someone who is supposed to be an 'existential therapist' would be more insightful than to engage in self aggrandizement.
    The second hand narcissism of these introduction speakers always makes me feel very irritated.

    • @Hello-zf5lq
      @Hello-zf5lq 3 года назад +3

      narcissism of the group therapist is part of their appeal and marketing of their service; they are in love with the idea of what they do, and denial of what they actually accomplish

    • @cadmantheaviator
      @cadmantheaviator 3 года назад +3

      @@Hello-zf5lq agree. They never leave therapy and can’t be held accountable. Their books are all about themselves. Patients are reduced to “resistance” and criticised for wanting to leave. Being assessed one to one and then moved to a group and the damage of that year is the worst experience of my life.

    • @Hello-zf5lq
      @Hello-zf5lq 3 года назад +3

      cadmantheaviator I think the profession evolved to draw people in and keep people in it, with the unscrupulous therapists staying in business and teaching same tactics to others. The AGPA manual is written like a guide on how to run a cult, not help people, because in any medical guide harm of the procedure is always discussed, but in therapy it’s assumed it’s always either helpful or neutral, never harmful. A lot of hypocrisy. Can’t believe I fell for it. Friends and family warned me. Now those same friends and family cannot stand me after the group therapy. It’s just that nobody expects how powerful the harm of their well developed scam process is. Everyone with social deficits or personal problems bites on the lure of group therapy. Little do they know..my group therapist bragged how ‘his friend taught him how to run a group of one’ by saying how do you feel about it, you are in a group of one, do you feel resentful, etc., and then laughed that he thinks the guy actually had a hard time attracting and retaining group members. What’s frustrating is that so much potential is wasted by these scumbags where group therapy could actually help people, if the therapists had something positive to teach other than starting with a false promise, then breaking people down and teaching them maladaptive interpretations and reactions, then blaming the students for lack of success or any problems that follow. Funny, we have a psychotherapy masters program that forces students to pay for therapy sessions from the professors and discusses their personal issues in class as a requirement to graduate lol.

    • @cadmantheaviator
      @cadmantheaviator 3 года назад +1

      @@Hello-zf5lq my experience was a year of hell. Three years on I’m still trying to explain to NHS managers that they should warn people before entering them into a group. I tend to agree that it is cult like. But as with many who leave cults I’ve got scars.
      I went in feeling guarded and felt trapped. Totally agree with your concerns about their dismissal of the very idea of harm. The language of “dropping out” is hugely stigmatising.

    • @Hello-zf5lq
      @Hello-zf5lq 3 года назад +1

      cadmantheaviator I went in because I had social deficits due to AS, I came out picking fights and being mean to my family even five years after I quit the group. The whole language of your agree to give advanced notice of several weeks before quitting group’ just gives the therapist to break you down and make you question your reason to quit.