He argues that this in itself can help to create a more authentic and therefore healing therapeutic relationship, where we meet our clients as a fellow human being instead of an "expert". In this classic guide to the process of psychotherapy, Yalom grants us permission to not know and to make mistakes, going as far as to assert that there is value in both sitting in the uncertainty with our clients and acknowledging when we drop the ball. In The Gift of Therapy he shares his hard won wisdom from his long career as a psychiatrist and existential psychotherapist with wit, pragmatism and humility.
What a relief then to come across Irvin Yalom's work. Here therapists seemed so certain, acting with almost prescient insight and knowing exactly what was happening in the consulting room at all times. The acute sense of inadequacy at daring to think I could help someone else through their suffering when I was still so flawed and uncertain myself, was only compounded by the many "success" stories I encountered in the literature. Even after 10 years in clinical practice, I remember the anxiety of being a trainee all too clearly.
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