YALOM D. IRVIN

(P/B) LOVE'S EXECUTIONER
Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all. Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair? How did Carlos's macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer? In this engrossing book, Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply affecting accounts of his work with these and seven other patients. Deep down, all o...
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(P/B) STARING AT THE SUN
This book is not, and cannot be, a compendium of thoughts about death, for throughout the millennia, every serious writer has addressed human mortality. Instead, this is a deeply personal book stemming from my confrontation with death. I share the fear of death with every human being: it is our dark shadow from which we are never severed. These pages contain what I have learned about overcoming the terror of death from my own experience, my work with my patients, and the thoughts of those writers who have informed my work. [...] (From the ...
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(P/B) MOMMA AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Momma and the Meaning of Life, by renowned psychotherapist and bestselling author Dr Irvin D. Yalom, is an exceptionally compelling and beautifully written collection of psychological case studies. This classic medium, first popularised by Freud and, more recently, by Oliver Sacks and Yalom himself, provides a fascinating insight into the human condition and our search for happiness. Contains six absorbing case studies which reveal the intricacies of the clients' psychological landscapes. Provides a fascinating insight into the human condi...
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(P/B) THE SPINOZA PROBLEM
In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the Jewish community, and his apparent influence on the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, whose einsatzgruppe was dispatched during the Second World War to investigate a mysterious "Spinoza Problem." Seamlessly alternating between Golden Age Am...
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ΤΟ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ ΣΠΙΝΟΖΑ
ΠΟΙΟΣ ΗΤΑΝ Ο ΣΠΙΝΟΖΑ; Αυτή η θαρραλέα μορφή του 17ου αιώνα, αυτός ο μεγαλοφυής φιλόσοφος που με το έργο του επηρέασε την παγκόσμια σκέψη, και ο όποιος σε ηλικία εικοσιτριών ετών μετατράπηκε σε αποσυνάγωγο για ολόκληρη την εβραϊκή κοινότητα του Άμστερνταμ, καθώς καί για την ίδια του την οικογένεια; Ποια ήταν η εσωτερική του ζωή; Και σε τι οφειλόταν, ακριβώς δύο αιώνες αργότερα, η έλξη που άσκησε στον "φιλόσοφο" των Ναζί ο Σπινόζα; Γιατί λεηλάτησαν τη βιβλιοθήκη του, άλλα δεν έκαψαν τα βιβλία του; Ποιο ήταν το "πρόβλημα Σπινόζα" στο όποιο αν...
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ΘΑ ΦΩΝΑΞΩ ΤΗΝ ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑ (ΧΑΡΤΟΔΕΤΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
Καθώς το αποχαιρετιστήριο δείπνο έφτανε στο τέλος του, ο Μπόμπ Μπέργκερ, ο φίλος μου από τα παλιά, έκανε νόημα ότι είχε ανάγκη να μου μιλήσει. Είχαμε ακολουθήσει διαφορετικές επαγγελματικές κατευθύνσεις, εκείνος χειρουργούσε καρδιές, εγώ θεράπευα ραγισμένες καρδιές μέσα από τη συζήτηση, κι όμως μεταξύ μας υπήρχε ένας στενός σύνδεσμος που το νιώθαμε κι οι δύο πως θα διαρκούσε όλη μας τη ζωή. Όταν με πήρε απ' το μπράτσο για να με τραβήξει παράμερα, κατάλαβα πως συνέβαινε κάτι εξαιρετικό. Ο Μπόμπ πολύ σπάνια με άγγιζε. Κάτι τέτοια τα παρατηρο...
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(H/B) A MATTER OF DEATH AND LIFE
A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed with cancer. In A Matter of Death and Life, Marilyn and Irv share how they took on profound new struggles: Marilyn to die a good death...
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ΘΑ ΦΩΝΑΞΩ ΤΗΝ ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑ (ΣΚΛΗΡΟΔΕΤΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
Καθώς το αποχαιρετιστήριο δείπνο έφτανε στο τέλος του, ο Μπομπ Μπέργκερ, ο φίλος μου από τα παλιά, έκανε νόημα ότι είχε ανάγκη να μου μιλήσει. Είχαμε ακολουθήσει διαφορετικές επαγγελματικές κατευθύνσεις, εκείνος χειρουργούσε καρδιές, εγώ θεράπευα ραγισμένες καρδιές μέσα από τη συζήτηση, κι όμως μεταξύ μας υπήρχε ένας στενός σύνδεσμος πού το νιώθαμε κι οι δύο πως θα διαρκούσε όλη μας τη ζωή. Όταν με πήρε απ' το μπράτσο για να με τραβήξει παράμερα, κατάλαβα πώς συνέβαινε κάτι εξαιρετικό. Ο Μπομπ πολύ σπάνια με άγγιζε. Κάτι τέτοια τα παρατηρο...
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(P/B) CREATURES OF A DAY
Eminent psychotherapist and bestselling author, Irvin D Yalom, gives us a new collection of ten absorbing tales of psychotherapy, revealing the mysteries, frustrations, pathos and humour at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. What makes life worth living? What can we do to lead meaningful lives? And how do we confront our inevitable end? 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 res...
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(P/B) LYING ON THE COUCH
Ernest loved being a psychotherapist. Day after day his patients invited him into the most intimate chambers of their lives. Day after day he comforted them, cared for them, eased their despair. And in return, he was admired and cherished. And paid as well, though, Ernest often thought, if he didn't need the money, he would do psychotherapy for nothing. Lucky is he who loves his work. Ernest felt lucky, all right. More than lucky. Blessed. He was a man who had found his calling -a man who could say, I am precisely where I belong, at the vo...
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(P/B) WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure," Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Only through facin...
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(H/B) THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY
In this completely revised and updated fifth edition of group psychotherapy’s standard text, Dr. Yalom and his collaborator present the most recent developments in the field, drawing on nearly a decade of new research as well as their broad clinical wisdom and expertise. Among the significant new topics: Online therapy Specialized groups Ethnocultural diversity Trauma Managed care Plus hundreds of new references and clinical vignettes. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) STARING AT THE SUN
Over the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist. In STARING AT THE SUN, he explores how the knowledge of our own mortality affects the unconscious mind of every human being. Tackling the effect of mankind's fear of death - both conscious and unconscious - on life and how we might live it, Yalom explains how we find ourselves in need of the comfort of therapy. At age 70 and facing his own fear of death, which he discusses in a special afterword, Dr Yalom tackles his toughest sub...
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(P/B) EVERY DAY GETS A LITTLE CLOSER
The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love’s Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated - the first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient.Ginny Elkin was a troubled young and talented writer whom the psychiatric world had labeled as "schizoid." After trying a variety of therapies, she entered into private treatment with Dr. Irvin Yalom at Stanford University. As part of their work together, they ...
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(P/B) CONCISE GUIDE TO GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY (ΓΙΑΛΟΜ ΙΡΒΙΝ, ΒΙΝΟΓΚΡΑΝΤΟΦ ΣΟΦΙΑ)
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(P/B) THE YALOM READER - SELECTIONS FROM THE WORK OF A MASTER
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(P/B) CREATURES OF A DAY
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 co...
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