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.

Such an encouraging video! Thank you

Thank you from Ireland Dr. Yalom🙏❤️

Awesome video..I am so grateful for him.

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

Dr Yalom is the real deal

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

Enjoyed this. Yalom is brilliant and funny

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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🙏🤝

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

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting observation. Maybe nothing but who knows?

@laylasafar4587

3 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

​@@laylasafar4587. Amen.

Moved by the tribute to the late Carl Rogers.

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.

Is this support group still in operation?

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

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?

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

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.