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I didn't understand that asking patients to be your therapist, analyzing their dreams, trying to be their friend, insisting that the patient-therapist relationship resembles all the rest of the patient's relationships, insisting that there's always an interpersonal conflict with a subconscious nature that is at the roots of one's emotional disturbance, using your own feelings about the client as a compass, etc. could serve a therapeutic purpose.

DING! It doesn't.

Spare yourself a few bucks by not buying this book filled with vignettes that demonstrate what is therapeutically baneful, groundless normative musings and unnecessary quotes from different books, plays, etc. every other page.

Lastly, Irvin is obviously a man who cannot take good care of himself and is unable to detach his ego from the therapeutic process, rationalizing this as being true to himself and genuine and so forth. This leads to patients becoming dependent on him and his acceptance and approval of them, in particular. As A. Ellis has pointed out - you just replace the irrational belief "Nobody cares about me, therefore I'm a worthless human being" with the equally irrational belief "My therapist, whom I deeply admire, cares about me, therefore I'm a worthy human being".