Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465097432ISBN-10:046509743XUPC:9780465097432Book Category:Psychology, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Psychotherapy, Movements, EssaysBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SCC9QKQFG9
"The publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate." -- Steven Pinker In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles -- as well as his own -- to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life yet reckon with its inevitable end. We meet a nurse who must stifle the pain of losing her son in order to comfort her patients' pains, a newly minted psychologist whose studies damage her treasured memories of a lost friend, and a man whose rejection of psychological inquiry forces even Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence. Creatures of a Day is a radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life, but also a celebration of some of the finest fruits -- love, family, friendship -- it can offer. Marcus Aurelius has written that "we are all creatures of a day." With Yalom as our guide, we will find the means to make our own day not only bearable, but also meaningful and joyful.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465097432ISBN-10:046509743XUPC:9780465097432Book Category:Psychology, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Psychotherapy, Movements, EssaysBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SCC9QKQFG9
Irvin D. Yalom, MD, is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundations' Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author of When Nietzsche Wept (winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction); Love's Executioner, a memoir; Becoming Myself, a group therapy novel; The Schopenhauer Cure; and the classic textbooks Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy, among many other books. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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