I've enjoyed his books and think he's an intelligent guy, but there's no way I'd want him as a therapist. I found he always took too much credit for changes that occurred within a client and discredited cultural outlooks that were different to his own.

Therapists are not authority figures, in my view, and are no more enlightened them I am. I don't think Yalom would say the same.

My own therapist told me he thought therapists were authority figures. He didn't seem to believe me when I told him he was more like a passenger in the side car next to a motorcycle. Someone who can point out things on the road, and have a good view of things I can't always see, but by no means the driver.