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Irvin D. Yalom · 1989
A collection of ten psychotherapy case studies exploring how patients' everyday problems—loneliness, obsession, grief, compulsivity—are rooted in existential anxieties about death, freedom, aloneness, and meaninglessness. Yalom presents these narratives as demonstrations of how confronting fundamental truths of existence can catalyze personal growth.
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What this book knows
A therapist's unflinching case notes reveal that love, death, and self-deception are the true engines of human suffering—and healing.
mortality
She saw through her own illusions, and what illusion had shielded now lay before her, bare and terrible. Her grief wound was now fully exposed.
LEY-RC-125He's not in the yard. He's not out back in the workshop. He's not anywhere. Except in your memories.
LEI-RC-022I realize now that I have not done what I might have done with my life. The course and the exam is over.
LE-RC-214desire
From patient to therapist to patient goes La Ronde of obsessional love—her obsession was vitally important to understand.
LEI-RC-201I don't even care if he means it, I just want him to say he cares about me. I've been hurt enough.
LEI-RC-214self-and-identity
I've been a patient for twenty years, and I'm tired of being treated like a patient. Matthew treated me like a patient, not a friend.
LEY-RC-052Illuminates
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