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Loading... Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapyby Irvin D. Yalom
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Fascinating read for those interested in psychology. (  ) libq | Mar 29, 2008 |  Yalom is brilliant, thoughtful, eloquent, and funny. He is a master writer. These stories pull you in. I was touched deeply by this book. (  ) deeyork | Mar 3, 2008 | These ten stories tell of Yalom’s work with patients in the “therapeutic encounter.” While each story is different, several common themes emerge: freedom, decision, existential isolation. Several of the stories deal more directly with issues of death and involve older patients. As in Every day gets a little closer, it is a treat to listen in as Yalom works with these people to help them better understand their motivations and their wishes. (  ) MiserableLibrarian | Dec 26, 2007 | Counselling  Nicktee1949 | Mar 28, 2007 | Consists of eight case-studies of people the author has treated, including a woman of 67, obsessively pining with love for her 32-year-old previous therapist and a woman of 19 stone who has emotional difficulties because of her weight problem. antimuzak | Dec 12, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. 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. Not since Freud has an author done so much to clarify what goes on between a psychotherapist and a patient.
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