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Creatures of a Day & Other Tales of Psychotherapy

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Creatures of a Day & Other Tales of Psychotherapy

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ISBN: 9780465097432
Title: Creatures of a Day & Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Author: YALOM IRVIN D.

\"All of us are creatures of a day,\" wrote Marcus Aurelius, \"rememberer and remembered alike.\" In his long-awaited new 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, and how to reckon with its inevitable end. In these pages, we meet a nurse, angry and adrift in a morass of misery where she has lost a son to a world of drugs and crime, and yet who must comfort the more privileged through their own pain; a successful businessman who, in the wake of a suicide, despairs about the gaps and secrets that infect every relationship; a newly minted psychologist whose study of the human condition damages her treasured memories of a lost friend; and a man whose rejection of philosophy forces even Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence. Their names and stories will linger long after the book's lastpage is turned.

LikeLove's Executioner, which established Yalom's preeminence as a storyteller illuminating the drama of existential therapy,Creatures of a Day is funny, earthy, and often shocking; it is a radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life, but also a celebration of some of the finest fruits-love, family, friendship-that life can bear. We are all creatures of a day. With Yalom as a guide, we can find in this book the means not just to make our own day bearable, but meaningful-and perhaps even joyful.

Format: Paperback
Price: $43.00

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Weight 245 g
Dimensions 210 × 140 × 19 mm