Love's executioner
Subtitle: and other tales of psychotherapy
By: Irvin D. Yalom ; [foreward by Randall Weingarten].
Edition: 1st Perennial Classics ed.
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Existential psychotherapy -- Case studies; Psychotherapy -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Love's executioner & other tales of psychotherapy
Description: 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.
Notes: "A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1989 by Basic Books"--T.p. verso.

"First HarperPerennial edition published 1990"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Love's executioner; title: "If rape were legal..."; title: Fat lady; title: "The wrong one died"; title: "I never thought it would happen to me"; title: "Do not go gentle"; title: Two smiles; title: Three unopened letters; title: Therapeutic monogamy; title: In search of the dreamer.