Search query: irvin yalom

Product: The Spinoza Problem: A Novel
Brand: Audible
Description: When 16-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster's office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe, his idol, was a great admirer of the Jewish 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Long after graduation, Rosenberg remains haunted by this "Spinoza problem": How could the German genius Goethe have been inspired by a member of a race Rosenberg considers so inferior to his own, a race he was determined to destroy?

Spinoza himself was no stranger to punishment during his lifetime. Because of his unorthodox religious views, he was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community in 1656, at the age of 24, and banished from the only world he had ever known. Though his life was short and he lived without means in great isolation, he nonetheless produced works that changed the course of history.

Over the years, Rosenberg rose through the ranks to become an outspoken Nazi ideologue, a faithful servant of Hitler, and the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich. Still, his Spinoza obsession lingered. By imagining the unexpected intersection of Spinoza's life with Rosenberg's, internationally best-selling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Spinoza, the saintly secular philosopher, and of Rosenberg, the godless mass murderer.
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Product: When Nietzsche Wept
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Product: Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
Brand: Audible
Description: Psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful follow-up to his best-selling Love's Executioner.

In six enthralling stories drawn from his own clinical experience, Irvin D. Yalom once again proves himself an intrepid explorer of the human psyche as he guides his patients - and himself - toward transformation. With eloquent detail and sharp-eyed observation, Yalom introduces us to a memorable cast of characters. Drifting through his dreams and trampling through his thoughts are Paula, Yalom's "courtesan of death"; Myrna, whose eavesdropping gives new meaning to patient confidentiality; Magnolia, into whose ample lap Yalom longs to pour his own sorrows, even as he strives to ease hers; and Momma - ill tempered, overpowering, and suffocating her son with both love and disapproval. A richly rewarding, almost illicit glimpse into the therapist's heart and mind, Momma and the Meaning of Life illuminates the unique potential of every human relationship.
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Product: Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Description: Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom. Perennial Library,2002
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Product: Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
Brand: Basic Books
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Product: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Brand: Wiley-Interscience
Jossey-Bass
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Product: Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
Brand: Basic Books
Basic Books
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Product: Creatures of a Day, and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Brand: Audible
Description: In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin 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 these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look.

Like Love's Executioner and Yalom's other writings, Creatures of a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face every day: to make our own lives meaningful.
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Product: Existential Psychotherapy
Brand: Basic Books
Basic Books AZ
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Product: Every Day Gets A Little Closer
Brand: Basic Books
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Product: Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Brand: Basic Books
Basic Books AZ
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Product: When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
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Product: The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
Brand: Basic Books
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Product: The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Covers may vary)
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
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Product: The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
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Product: Lying on the Couch: A Novel
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
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