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    Creatures of a Day: and other tales of psychotherapy
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    Creatures of a Day: and other tales of psychotherapy

    By Irvin D. Yalom

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    In his long and distinguished career, Irvin D. Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life’s two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living.

    In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of meeting these challenges. Yalom not only gives us an enthralling glimpse into his patients’ desires and motivations, but also tells his own story as he struggles to reconcile his emotional life with the demands placed on him, and reckons with his own life’s inevitable end.

    Creatures of a Day shows that the process of psychotherapy can create some of the most engrossing human dramas imaginable. It provides an intelligent, compassionate, and yet unflinching look at the human soul and all the pain, confusion, and hope that go with it. Suffused with humour, great artistry, and a profound humanity, Creatures of a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face, each day, to make our own lives meaningful.

    PRAISE FOR IRVIN D. YALOM

    ‘A poignant and bracing collection of stories based on [Yalom’s] therapeutic work. Yalom, a published novelist with decades of clinical experience, offers vivid and generous descriptions of patients brought face-to-face with their mortality … Watching “Irv”, as his patients call him, convince patients to unpack their baggage is the chief pleasure of this book. He is overtly kind, sympathetic, and generous, but subtly merciless.’ The Los Angeles Times

    ‘Creatures of a Day is a series of moving, if partly fictionalized, tales illuminating Yalom’s hand-crafted approach to treating grief, loss, regret and, above all, encroaching mortality … [Yalom] is a student of the human condition whose literary, as well as therapeutic, voice mixes wonder and humility.’ The Boston Globe

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateMar 2, 2015
    ISBN9781925113617
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    Creatures of a Day: and other tales of psychotherapy
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    Irvin D. Yalom

    Irvin D. Yalom is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. The author of two definitive psychotherapy textbooks, Dr Yalom has written several books for the general reader, including Love’s Executioner, Staring at the Sun, Creatures of a Day, and Becoming Myself; and the novels When Nietzsche Wept; The Schopenhauer Cure, and The Spinoza Problem. Dr Yalom lives in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California.

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    • 5/5
      I find Yalom's descriptions of cases a continual delight that leave me in a reflective mood. They take me out of myself and renew my appreciation of life and my place in it.
    • 4/5
      As with his collection, "Loves Executioner", these are interesting, real-life psychotherapy cases. Each case finds its way to revelation, sometimes in remarkable or unexpected fashion, and Yalom seems to learn as much about himself as do the patients in the process. He comes across as an immensely caring man, and doesn't shy from facing his own unease with mortality. 10 cases are offered here, and I honestly enjoyed reading each one.