Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy
Abstract
Gets a Little. .Closer:A Twice-ToldTherapy,D. Ya/om, M.D. and Ginny Books. 1974. 244 pp. $8. 95.This book records aElkin.York,N. Y.by Irvin . Basicwhen one of his Freudian friends remarked after having read the manuscript that Yalomâs behavior was an example of Wilhelm Reichâs the therapist definition of the chaotic situation-that says everything that comes to mind. in whichDr. Irvin Yalom and a young woman who is given the name of Ginny Elkin. They saw each other at weekly intervals over a penod of 20 months. The arrangements under which the therapy was carried out were unusual. Instead of receiving financial payment from Ginny, Dr. Yalom entered into an agreement with her that each of them would write an immediate, no-holds-barred account of cvcry session after it was completed and that at intervals of ap-What of Ginnyâs response? Although she too is reasonably open and frank about her responses, they are not nearly so selfrevelatory to concealary that talent. sheas are herselfHowever, âthinks else.âDr. Yalomâs. This is partly because she is able to some extent behind her considerable literthere writes is only more to it than that-she Everything notes is like and in analogies.is somethingGinny.It mayproximately 6 months the write-ups