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Love's Executioner

Irvin D. Yalom

1991270 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991Penguin · 270 pages · ENGISBN 9780140128468
  • 2000Perennial Classics · 286 pages · ENGISBN 9780060958343

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.

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