Tackling the effect of mankinds fear of death both conscious and unconscious on life and how we might live it, yalom explains how we find ourselves in need of the comfort of therapy. In this magisterial opus, capping alifetime of work and personal experience, dr. Written in irv yalom s inimitable storytelling style, staringat the sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to theuniversal issue of mortality. By denying death, the psychoanalyst suggests, we misdirect our search for happiness. Yaloms more than thirtyfive years in clinical practice, the gift of therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. At 74, yalom has penned a book that is the climax of his lifework, focusing on the universal human issues of mortality and death. Other significant contributions have included existential psychotherapy, and ny times bestseller loves executioner and other tales of psychotherapy. Psychotherapist writer professor emeritus of psychiatry. The yalom reader edited by ben yalom basic books, 1997. Along these lines, yalom also recalls the story of ebenezer scrooge in charles dickens a christmas carol. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of. Yalom is an author whose bestselling trade books and novels tell compelling, dramatic, and illuminating stories with which readers can identify. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an awakening experiencea.
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Yalom distills thirtyfive years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume. This book by julia bueno a psychotherapist who has herself starkng multiple miscarriages and has been a trustee and volunteer for the miscarriage association will engage with questions around how we respond to womens bodies and reproductive health, our attitudes to birth and death, and how both technology and. Publication date 2008 topics death psychological aspects. Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist irvin d. Yalom written in irv yalom s inimitable storytelling style, staring at the sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality.
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