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by Irvin D. Yalom (Author) "ONCE, several years ago, some friends and I enrolled in a cooking class taught by an Armenian matriarch and her aged servant ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 524 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books (17 Nov 1980)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0465021476
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465021475
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,045 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to be practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of its tenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whose Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a service to that discipline since 1970, provides existential psychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework. Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimate concerns of lifedeath, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifested in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience, empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom has written a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatability of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and it opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that will surprise and enlighten all readers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wise, profound and witty, 22 Aug 2000
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This is, without a doubt, a profound and wise book - but one that can make you laugh too. Yalom writes like a dream, and communicates deep truths in simple language. My only reservation - and it's a small one - is that so many of his cases seem to have intriguingly neat endings. In my experience, life ain't like that! But it does make for good reading.

Whether you're a therapist, counsellor, social worker - or just an interested human being - this book will repay your time, and I'm sure, like me, you'll come back to it time and again. A real investment.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 11 Dec 2005
I recommend this book to any person who is interested in Psychotherapy/Counselling of any particular approach /model. Ride the storm of existential anxiety with Yalom as your Captain who freely admits of his existential anxiety, shares his experience of countless case histories. This book is not just for those who are training in counselling, etc.The book is easily read by the layman though a dictionary is required for some single words, the content/ context is always very understandable and crystal clear. Yalom writes with such eloquence and is a gripping author. A pleasure to own, this book is a text book for me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding: Should be required reading, 8 Jan 1997
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Yalom's book contains a unique interpretation and presentation of common behaviors, such that these behaviors can be seen as a response to existential dilemma's... As a layperson, I found it extremely enriching, and very accessible. It should be required reading for anyone in the profession (and is probably Yalom's magnum opus?).
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3.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to applying Existentialism to therapy
Yalom follows Rollo May in making Existentialism accessible to American psychotherapists. The introduction clearly explains the need for doing so. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars What a fantastic book
I borrowed a copy of this book from the library at Uni almost by accident and to be honest it is prehaps the most thought provoking, fun, enjoyable, fasinating, happy, sad, and... Read more
Published on 28 April 2007 by Mr. Niall Ferguson

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every cent and syllable
While Yalom's novels captivated me and "Love's Executioner" would not let me go, this book is the heart of Yalom's genious. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Astonishing
I credit Dr. Yalom with having written the most insightful treatise on human behaviour ever published. Read more
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