num_pages: 352
description: Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoir.Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning he calls out hoping to befriend her Hello Measles! But in his dream the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to so many. This is not simply a man's life story Yalom's reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the origins of our own selves and the meanings of our lives.
language: English
title: Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
publisher: Basic Books