Love's Executioner

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.

First sentence: I do not like to work with patients who are in love.

Year

1991

Language

English

Publisher

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Editions

2

Reader rating

3.8 / 5 (6)

Pages

304

ISBN

9780060958343

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