- Case studies, Existential psychotherapy, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and philosophy
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.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Irvin D. Yalom
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Perennial Classics
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- gre, English
- ISBN
- 9780060958343
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