Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Lying on the Couch, The Schopenhauer Cure, When Nietzsche Wept, as well as several classic textbooks on psychotherapy, including The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, considered the foremost work on group therapy. The Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University, he divides his practice between Palo Alto, where he lives, and San Francisco, California.
"[Yalom's] wise ideas are perfectly
accessible."--Publishers Weekly
"An absorbing guide"--Boston Globe
"Certainly helpful to therapists and patients, may also help any
thoughtful person seeking to improve relationships with others and
self-understanding."--Booklist
"For both the professional and the lay reader....In 85 short
chapters, [Yalom] presents little pearls of ideas shaped from 35
years in practice....Yalom's latest is
essential."--Library Journal
"I admired especially the humanity and humility which shine through
this book....I would recommend this book to anyone but especially
to those open to learning with the heart as well as the
head."--E. Thomas Dowd, The Counseling Psychology
Quarterly
"Very much forward looking--a call to arms for the couch. . . . I'm
struck by the man's unerring sense of humanity. . . . [Yalom is] a
wizard, for whom no curtain is left drawn."--Metro Times
(Detroit)
"Yalom writes with the narrative wit of O. Henry and the earthy
humor of Isaac Bashevis Singer."--San Francisco
Chronicle
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