num_pages: 215
description: The publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate. - Steven Pinker In this stunning collection of stories renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles -- as well as his own -- to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life yet reckon with its inevitable end. We meet a nurse who must stifle the pain of losing her son in order to comfort her patients' pains a newly minted psychologist whose studies damage her treasured memories of a lost friend and a man whose rejection of psychological inquiry forces even Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence. Creatures of a Day is a radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life but also a celebration of some of the finest fruits -- love family friendship -- it can offer. Marcus Aurelius has written that we are all creatures of a day. With Yalom as our guide we will find the means to make our own day not only bearable but also meaningful and joyful.
language: English
title: Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
publisher: Basic Books