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Love's Executioner

  • 304 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1991
  • 5 editions

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1 About this book

This collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist. Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter.

In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist. Not since Freud has an author done so much to clarify what goes on between a psychotherapist and a patient.

  • Existential psychotherapy
  • Psychoanalysis and philosophy
  • Existentialism
  • Psychotherapy

2 About Irvin D. Yalom

Born 1931

Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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