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Love S Executioner By Irvin D Yalom Summary
In the tale of “Love’s Executioner,” Irvin D. Yalom (2000), the writer and psychotherapist, presents a personal account of how his psychotherapy unfolded for his patient and himself. Yalom (2000) honestly represents what actually occurred when he offered psychotherapeutic treatment to a seventy-year-old woman, Thelma, who was intensely in love with her former therapist named Mathew. Thelma’s love obsession had dominated her life for eight years, and made her have one suicide attempt (Yalom, 2000). It seems that Thelma failed to live responsibly at all. During the five-month, once weekly course of therapy, Yalom successfully designed a proper therapeutic approach to remove Thelma’s obsession and reduce her pain and depression through staying
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