Love's Executioner, And Other Tales Of Psychotherapy
Contains 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. This title includes stories that reveal the diversity of...
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Contains 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. This title includes stories that reveal the diversity of human motivation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140128468 (0140128468)
Publish date: January 31st 1995
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Science,
American,
Health,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Short Stories,
Mental Health
Irvin Yalom: A Fumbling Therapist?“Though there is something reassuring about the omniscient therapist who is always in control of every situation, there can be something powerfully engaging about a fumbling therapist, a therapist willing to flounder with the patient until they, together, stumble up...
It was a very interesting book, what can I say? The book is divided in 10 stories, each of a different type of man/woman with it's problems about life, about others and so on. Yalom makes a story of how he treated them and what he discovered about human minds and about humans in general from these s...
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