Creatures of a day : and other tales of psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0465029647 (hardcover)
- 9780465029648 (hardcover) :
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Main Library | NonFiction | 616.8914 Y19 | Checked out | 06/20/2024 | 33111007955558 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate." -- Steven Pinker
In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles -- as well as his own -- to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life yet reckon with its inevitable end. We meet a nurse who must stifle the pain of losing her son in order to comfort her patients' pains, a newly minted psychologist whose studies damage her treasured memories of a lost friend, and a man whose rejection of psychological inquiry forces even Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence.
Creatures of a Day is a radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life, but also a celebration of some of the finest fruits -- love, family, friendship -- it can offer. Marcus Aurelius has written that "we are all creatures of a day." With Yalom as our guide, we will find the means to make our own day not only bearable, but also meaningful and joyful.
The crooked cure -- On being real -- Arabesque -- Thank you, Molly -- Don't fence me in -- Show some class for your kids -- You must give up the hope for a better past -- Get your own damn fatal illness : home to Ellie -- Three cries -- Creatures of a day.
"Yalom describes his patients' struggles-- as well as his own-- to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end"--Dust jacket flap.