[Penguin Books]
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Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary
insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of
ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all.
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Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight
of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of
his patients - and through them into the minds of us all. Why was
Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made
Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair?
How did Carlos' macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer?
In this engrossing book, Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply
affecting accounts of his work with these and seven other patients.
Deep down, all of them were suffering from the basic human
anxieties - isolation, fear of death or freedom, a sense of the
meaninglessness of life - that none of us can escape completely.
And yet, as the case histories make touchingly clear, it is only by
facing such anxieties head on that we can hope to come to terms
with them and develop. Throughout, Dr Jalom remains refreshingly
frank about his own errors and prejudices; his book provides a rare
glimpse into the consulting room of a master therapist. Reviews:
"Dr Yalom demonstrates once again that in the right hands, the
stuff of therapy has the interest of the richest and most inventive
fiction".(Eva Hoffman, New York Times). "These remarkably moving
and instructive tales of the psychiatric encounter bring the reader
into novel territories of the mind - and the landscape is truly
unforgettable". (Maggie Scarf). "Love's Executioner is one of those
rare books that suggests both the mystery and the poetry of the
psychotherapeutic process. The best therapists are at least partly
poets. With this riveting and beautifully written book, Irvin Yalom
has joined their ranks". (Erica Jong). "Inspired ...He writes with
the narrative wit of O. Henry and the earthy humor of Isaac
Bashevis Singer". (San Francisco Chronicle). "Dr Yalom offers a
valuable insight into the delicate process of therapy". (Sunday
Telegraph). "Irvin Yalom writes like an angel about the devils that
besiege us". (Rollo May). "These stories are wonderful. They make
us realize that within every human being lie the pain and the
beauty that make life worthwhile". (Bernie S. Siegel). "Dr Yalom is
unusually honest, both with his patients and about himself".
(Anthony Storr). "Yalom is a gifted storyteller, and from the sound
of these tales, a no-less-gifted psychotherapist". (Los Angeles
Times)."This is an impressive transformation of clinical experience
into literature. Dr Yalom's case histories are more gripping than
98 percent of the fiction published today, and he has gone to
amazing lengths of honesty to depict himself as a realistic
flesh-and-blood character: funny, flawed, perverse, and, above all,
understanding". (Phillip Lopate). "I loved Love's Executioner. Dr
Yalom has learned something that fiction writers learned years ago
- that people's mistakes are a lot more interesting than their
triumphs". (Joanne Greenberg). About the author: Irvin D. Yalom is
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School
of Medicine. As well as an award-winning psychiatrist and
psychotherapist, he is an extremely prolific author. His many other
works include The Gift of Therapy, Staring at the Sun, When
Nietzsche Wept, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychiatry, The
Schopenhauer Cure, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of
Life, Existential Psychotherapy, I'm Calling the Police, Inpatient
Group Psychotherapy, Every Day Gets a Little Closer and The Spinoza
Problem.