Traces the developing psychotheraputic relationship from the vantage points
of both patient and doctor through their simultaneous accounts of the treatment
process.The dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient during therapy: a
collaboration between the author of Loves Executioner and a talented young
writer labeled as schizoid. . The many thousands of readers of the best-selling
Loves Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr.
Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he
treatedthe 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.
