
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 285 Pages
- Publisher: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group
- Publication Date: June 2012
- ISBN: SYALOMIRDLOVESEXECUTIONERANDO9780465020119
Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
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First published in 1989, this New York Times - bestselling collection of tent tales by distinguished psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has become a classic. With insight and sympathy, Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist. Now with a new afterword, Love's Executioner promises to inspire generations of readers to come.
About the Author
Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of The Schopenhauer Cure, Lying on the Couch, Every Day Gets a Little Closer, and Love's Executioner, as well as several classic textbooks on psychotherapy. When Nietzsche Wept was a bestseller in Germany, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Argentina, and Brazil with millions of copies sold worldwide. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University, and he divides his practice between Palo Alto, where he lives, and San Francisco, California.
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“Irvin Yalom writes like an angel about the devils that besiege us. These beautifully wrought true stories go way beyond therapy; they are incisive and moving tales of life, by a wise psychotherapist.”
Rollo May
“In Love’s Executioner I marvelled at Yalom’s courage in writing about therapeutic relationships which had not been a great success and also at his skill in bringing these encounters to life.”
Existential Analysis (London)
“[I]nsightful.”
Monterey County Herald (California)
“The vicissitudes of neurosis and its treatment have always provided irresistible material for dramatic narratives. In Love’s Executioner Yalom demonstrates that in the right hands, the stuff of therapy has the interest of the richest and most inventive fiction.”
Arkansas DemocratGazette
“[Yalom’s] honesty can be unnerving ... Love’s Executioner offers a tragic, deeply felt vision of the human condition. In demystifying the therapist-patient encounter, Dr Yalom brings us into broader territory: he reminds us of our need for intimacy and trust and the struggle necessary to achieve them.”
Sunday Herald (Melbourne
Australia)
“Dr. Yalom’s point is not to merely document psychological abnormality, it is to demonstrate that ’it is possible to confront the truths of existence and harness their power in the service of personal change and growth.’ Read Love’s Executioner, and weep.”
Globe and Mail
“Dr. Irvin Yalom ... bravely steps into this chaotic void in Love’s Executioner ... [H]e brings understanding, order, and the ’feel’ of the process of psychotherapy as few before him have done.”
Toronto Star
“By his honesty and literary talent, Yalom convinces us that these are, in his words, ’everyman, everywoman stories’ and that in each of these ’crazies,’ in my word, is a little bit of you and me.”
Miami Herald
“Love’s Executioner is Yalom’s wise, humane, stirring and utterly absorbing account of how 10 of his patients try to cope with what he calls ’existence pain’—the knowledge that death is inevitable, that each of us is ultimately alone, that life has no clear meaning, but that we nonetheless have the freedom ’to make our lives as we will'....Irvin Yalom’s book is charged with hope and generosity of spirit.”
Newsday
“Inspired....Yalom writes with the narrative wit of O. Henry and the earthy humor of Isaac Bashevis Singer.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Here is the naked therapist, stripped of the armor of god-like omniscience, aware of his flaws…”
Chicago Tribune
“Dr. Yalom demonstrates once again that in the right hands, the stuff of therapy has the interest of the richest and most inventive fiction.”—New York Times “Yalom is a gifted storyteller, and from the sound of these tales, a no-less-gifted psychotherapist. He restores a sense of awe and mystery to an endeavor that all too often gets mired in the muck of jargon and categorization... In addition to bringing the reader up close to his patients, and to a process often (necessarily) cloaked in secrecy, he gives the reader an un-airbrushed picture of the therapist, warts and all.”
Los Angeles Times
Product Description
First published in 1989, this New York Times - bestselling collection of tent tales by distinguished psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has become a classic. With insight and sympathy, Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist. Now with a new afterword, Love's Executioner promises to inspire generations of readers to come.
About the Author
Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of The Schopenhauer Cure, Lying on the Couch, Every Day Gets a Little Closer, and Love's Executioner, as well as several classic textbooks on psychotherapy. When Nietzsche Wept was a bestseller in Germany, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Argentina, and Brazil with millions of copies sold worldwide. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University, and he divides his practice between Palo Alto, where he lives, and San Francisco, California.
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 285 Pages
- Publisher: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group
- Publication Date: June 2012
- ISBN: SYALOMIRDLOVESEXECUTIONERANDO9780465020119