Jorge Bucay is a gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist, and writer from Argentina. His books have sold more than 2 million copies around the world, and have been translated into more than seventeen languages.
He was born in a modest family. He started working at the age of thirteen. In the course of his life, he has worked as a traveling salesman selling socks, books and sports clothing, as well as an insurance agent, taxi driver, clown, warehouseman, educator, actor, doctor on duty, host of children's parties, psychiatrist, group coordinator, radio collaborator, and television host.
In 1973, he graduated as a doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, and specialized in mental illnesses at the Buenos Aires Pirovano Hospital and at the Santa M贸nica clinic.
He currently defines his job as professional helper. He divides his attention between attending therapeutic teaching conferences, which have taken him around the world, and the writing of his books, which he considers therapeutic tools.
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Jorge Bucay, c茅l猫bre auteur 脿 succ猫s sur le continent sud-am茅ricain, a 茅crit 12 best-sellers vendus 脿 plusieurs millions d'exemplaires. Il r茅side entre Buenos Aires et l'Espagne o霉 cette ann茅e - v茅ritable ph茅nom猫ne - sept de ses livres 茅taient pr茅sents dans la liste des meilleures ventes.
"Let me tell you a story" is a book of short extension made of little tales that need to be read calmly, with mime and especially with a lot of personal reflection. I advise you to read it slowly, savoring it like a fine wine and leaving the moral hidden in each chapter resonates through your head like an echo throughout the day, this will make you reflect more deeply into every psychological tip that Bucay tries to teach us. It's a book I recommend to everyone because I think we all need from time to time to reflect on ourselves, finding out what are our limits and our deficiencies and above all, to be aware of our emotions and become better persons.
Spanish version: D茅jame que te cuente es un libro de extensi贸n breve pero que necesita ser le铆do con calma, mimo y sobre todo con mucha reflexi贸n. Os aconsejo que lo le谩is poco a poco, sabore谩ndolo como un buen vino y dejando que la moraleja que esconde cada cap铆tulo resuene por vuestra cabeza como un eco durante todo el d铆a, de esta manera interiorizar茅is y reflexionar茅is con mayor profundidad cada una de las armas psicol贸gicas que Bucay nos intenta ense帽ar. Es un libro que recomiendo a todo el mundo porque creo que todos necesitamos reflexionar de vez en cuando sobre nosotros mismos, averiguando cuales son nuestros l铆mites, nuestras deficiencias, y sobre todo para poder ser conscientes de nuestras emociones y mejorar como personas.
3,5 realno Dobre ideje potaknu covjeka na razmisljanje. No, jako brzo i ispare.. Treba nauceno non stop ponavljati pa mozda nesto i urodi plodom! Preporuka od mene za puno interesantnih ideja i anegdota za pokrenuti malko mozak! ;)
Based on this book, translation, ''Let me tell you a story'', I got an impression that Jorge Bucay is trying to be South American guru of popular psychology. In this book, guru of Gestalt psychotherapy and philosophy. It was like he was trying to be bookish Sean Maguire from 'Good Will Hunting' but he failed. At least for me.
Jorge Bucay wrote this book in gestalt mannerism, meaning, Bucay is a real Argentinean psychotherapist and he wanted us, me, the reader to get in contact with myself, using autosuggestion as a tool. Which is of course basic thing of any self analysis, but I found his stories quite shallow and too general. Yes, all of his stories have one intention 鈥� using warm connotations, fables and parabolas, symbolism from ancient cultures, countries and religions ... rather than cold ''psycho'' expressions to approach masses 鈥� crowd.
Which is ok if your inner world is a land not yet discovered, and if you are disconnected with yourself and if you need instant help. Something soothing that will tell you, you are not alone. Which is again, something we all can relate to. Nobody wants to be psychologically special (this sounds dumb :), we all need to have and we want comrades during our crises.
I am not trying to diminish Bucay, but I heard so much about this book and now I'm really disappointed. He used many anecdotes and situations which everybody has in life 鈥� problems with work, partners, lovers, friends and family ... problems with our obligations, duties, what we want, what we need, what we have, and of course, how we deal emotionally and how we project these things outside - in comparison with what is happening inside of us. He used stories, rather that advices, to show us the way ''out''.
It just didn't work with me. It wasn鈥檛 deep enough, it was cute and charming. Maybe that's my problem. But to explain that I would have to start a sentence with, My dear diary...:)
if you're older than 15, enjoy the collection of stories in this book. that's all there is to it. all the author's attempts to analyze the stories, moralize, "guide" the character (and subsequently the reader) through deep understanding of human psychology, fail and just seem so superficial, already tried and unnecessary. had this been just a collection of stories, it would've been enough. it reminded me too much of coelho - shallow and not good quality writing.
I guess this is a self help book. The author is a gestalt psychotherapist, and he is one of two the main characters of this book, or that was my impression. The other is Demi谩n, which is he is treating. His method is to tell Demi谩n stories, and talk about things in relation to these stories.
To be quite honest, I didn't really connect that well with the self help aspect of this book, but this is an interesting collection of folktales, parables, and jokes from all over. There are pieces from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and so on. His retellings of them are quite fun. I enjoyed reading this collection, and I may dip into sometime again.
One thing i can tell for sure about this book - it's life-changing. All of those stories make you realize that what it is, it's not always what it seems. And i just ADORE the way I feel now, it's like I am about to start living a brand new life now.
In dem Buch begleitet man den Patienten Demian, der aus der Ich-Perspektive von seinen Therapiesitzungen berichtet. W盲hrend dieser Sitzungen erz盲hlt ihm der Therapeut Jorge Geschichten, die zu den aktuellen Problemen in Damians Leben passen und ihn (und den Leser) etwas lehren sollen.
Durch die sehr kurzen Kapitel und die Spr眉nge zwischen Sitzung und Geschichte war es anfangs schwer f眉r mich in das Buch und vor allem das Lesen reinzukommen, aber nach einer Weile habe ich mich an diesen Wechsel gew枚hnt und ich konnte das Buch gut lesen. Ab da hat es auch dann angefangen mir wirklich zu gefallen.
Einzelne Geschichten davon werde ich wohl des 脰fteren nochmals lesen. Besonders gut gefallen bzw. zum Nachdenken angeregt haben mir die Geschichten "Der angekettete Elefant", "Die Triebe des Omb煤-Baum", "Die Exekution" und "Der Wahrheitsladen".
Autor je psihoterapeut koji u ovom djelu kroz razgovor sa mladim 膷ovjekom kao "pacijentom" daje odgovore na pitanja koja mu膷e ve膰inu mladih ljudi, kao 拧to je potraga sa sobom, tra啪enje svog identiteta, odnosa sa drugima,pitanja la啪i, moralnosti. Knjiga je sastavljena od dijaloga psihoterapeut- pacijent i puno mudrih pri膷a iz cijelog svijeta koje je autor lijepo ukomponirao u pri膷u. 膶ita se pitko, pro膷itao sam ovu knjigu u jednom danu. Evo jedna pri膷a iz knjige: Moj je djed volio kapljicu. Najvi拧e je volio piti turski anis. Pio je anis i dodavao mu vodu, da ga razbla啪i, ali svejedno bi se napio. Onda bi pio viski s vodom i napio bi se. Pio bio i vino s vodom i napio bi se. Sve dok se jednog dana nije odlu膷io izlije膷itti... i ostavio je... vodu! :D
I prolonged finishing this book because I liked it so much that I never wanted it to end. All of the stories were very interesting and taught me something new or gave me a new perspective on certain topics. This is not your typical self-help book, so I would definitely recommend it to anyone! ( I don't usually choose to read or like reading that genre of books but I fell in love with this one.)
Dieses Buch war ein Geschenk. Das muss man vorweg sagen, denn von mir aus h盲tte ich nie zu diesem Geschichtenb眉chlein gegriffen. Doch die Schenkerin war so begeistert, dass ich dem Buch auf jedem Fall eine Chance geben wollte. Es fing auch gar nicht so schlecht an. Die Idee, dass der junge Mann (und Ich-Erz盲hler) Demian zum Psychiater Jorge geht - der nat眉rlich so hei脽t, wie der Autor und Psychiater Jorge Bucay - und der Autor sozusagen einmal die Perspektive wechselt und in die Haut eines Patienten schl眉pft, klang interessant. Auch die Geschichten, die der Psychiater Jorge erz盲hlt, um Demian zum Nachdenken und zu neuen Erkenntnissen bez眉glicher seiner pers枚nlichen Probleme zu bringen, waren nicht schlecht. Doch das Konzept reicht nicht, um Leser wie mich auf Dauer zu fesseln. Ich m枚chte von einem Buch gefesselt und unterhalten werden - das schaffen die Geschichten, die im Buch erz盲hlt werden zwar -, aber dies sind Geschichten, die der Autor gr枚脽tenteils gesammelt und nicht selbst erfunden hat. Es wird rasch deutlich, dass Jorge Bucay selbst kein gro脽er Erz盲hler ist. Nicht nur der Sprachstil ist holprig, auch die Figurenentwicklung und besonders die Figurenidentifikation sind in meinen Augen unausgereift. Das Buch besteht im Grunde nur aus einer Aneinanderreihung von Therapiesitzungen, in denen erz盲hlt wird. Eingeleitet werden die Erz盲hlungen immer durch (zu) knappe Gedanken des Ich-Erz盲hlers und Dialoge zwischen Arzt und Patient, durch die ich als Leserin die Figuren jedoch nur sehr oberfl盲chlich kennen lerne und es nicht vermag, mit Demian Sympathie aufzubringen. Im Grunde kam es mir so vor, dass dem Autor nur darum ging, einige seiner Lieblingsgeschichten in einem B眉chlein zu sammeln und durch irgendeinen roten Faden zu verbinden. Und das wird schnell langweilig. Da ich selbst Autorin bin, lege ich besonders auf die Figurenentwicklung und -identifikation sowie auf neue Ideen Wert, doch damit geizt Jorge Bucay. Nach dem ersten Drittel war daher der Reiz dieser Geschichtensammlung f眉r mich verflogen und am Ende war ich nur noch froh, dass es irgendwann vorbei war. Fazit: Von mir gibt es 3 Sterne f眉r die Geschichten im Buch, aber nur 1 Stern f眉r die Rahmenhandlung. Macht insgesamt 2 Sterne.