Loves Executioner, by Irvin D. Yalom Essay -- Literary Analysis, Yalo

In the story, Loves Executioner, Yalom treats and old woman named Thelma that is overly obsessed with her a former therapist from decennium years ago named Matthew. Yalom feeling though that he is drawn to the facets of her dilemma decides to do everything he can to empower Thelma move past the obsessions that had been wrecking massacre on her mental health. Although Thelmas lamb obsession with her therapist, and her subjective experiences on life of what is preventing her from living in the present, Yalom attempts to treat a 70-year-old woman only to consider that being love executioner more complicated as he had anticipated.First and foremost are Yalom and Thelmas first meeting. In beginning, Yalom is intrigued with her love obsession with Matthew and couldnt understand why her former therapist that was considerably younger would even want to have sexual relations Thelma as he describes her as, a shabby old woman (Yalom, 2000). The possibly of serve welling her move past her obsession to ease her suffering, were the reasons why Yalom ultimately decides to treat her. I thought that though Yalom had good intentions from the start to treat her, I think that he was thrown off by her demands as she tells him right from the start, Eight years ago I had a love affair with my therapist. Since then he has never left my mind. I almost killed myself once and I believe I will pull ahead the next time. You are my last hope. (Yalom, 2000 p. 18) A person that has been seeing therapists for over twenty years and be stuck on an obsession for ten, I thought, was rather frighten and I think that Yalom did the best he could to remain optimistic. If I had a patient like Thelma that told me that I was her last hope and if I could not help her she wi... ...ought that in some ways Yalom lost his patience, but he was on time constraints had more time to work with Thelma, therapy may have turned egress different. This was defiantly one most confusing and intricate storie s I have read in Yaloms book and that the overall take home center I took from this was that, love and obsessions are hard to intellectualize and understand objectively as much as we would like to. Although what may be logically the best decision, love is not based on logic and that the only loves executioner cannot come from the suggestions of another person or therapist, but more from themselves and within. I think this bring up states the story best, Love and Psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. A good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by secret and crumbles upon inspection (Yalom, 2000 p. 17)