Every Day Gets a Little Closer : A Twice-Told Therapy

The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated — the first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient. Ginny Elkin was a troubled young and talented writer whom the psychiatric world had labeled as "schizoid." After trying a variety of therapies, she entered into private treatment with Dr. Irvin Yalom at Stanford University. As part of their work together, they agreed to write separate journals of each of their sessions. Every Day Gets a Little Closer is the product of that arrangement, in which they alternately relate their descriptions and feelings about their therapeutic relationship. Ginny Elkin was a troubled young and talented writer whom the psychiatric world had labeled as 'schizoid.' After trying a variety of therapies, she entered into private treatment with Dr. Irvin Yalom at Stanford University. As part of their work together, they agreed to write separate journals of each of their sessions. This text is a product of that arrangement, in which they alternately relate their descriptions and feelings about their therapeutic relationship

The dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient during therapy: a collaboration between the author of Love’s Executioner and a talented young writer labeled as “schizoid.”

Both the author, a psychiatrist, and his patient do individual write-ups following therapy sessions. A "must read" for anyone who has been in therapy and wants to know what your therapist may be thinking. An experiment as related by a psychoanalytic therapist and his patient GINNY appeared today in, what is for her, relatively good shape.