EAN: 9780349410074

BECOMING MYSELF - IRVIN YALOM KARTONIERT (TB)

Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In Becoming Myself   his
long-awaited memoir  he turns his therapeutic eye on himself  delving into the relationships
that shaped him and the groundbreaking work that made him famous.  The first-generation child
of immigrant Russian Jews  Yalom grew up in a lower-class neighbourhood in Washington DC.
Determined to escape its confines  he set his sights on becoming a doctor. An incredible ascent
followed: we witness his start at Stanford Medical School amid the cultural upheavals of the
1960s  his turn to writing fiction as a means of furthering his exploration of the human psyche
and his rise to international prominence.  Yalom recounts his revolutionary work in group
psychotherapy and how he became the foremost practitioner of existential psychotherapy  a
method that draws on the wisdom of great thinkers over the ages. He reveals the inspiration for
his many seminal books  including Love's Executioner and When Nietzche Wept  which meld
psychology and philosophy to arrive at arresting new insights into the human condition.
Interweaving the stories of his most memorable patients with personal tales of love and regret
Becoming Myself brings readers close to Yalom's therapeutic technique  his writing process and
his family life.  In this  his final work  Yalom finds wisdom in a line from Charles Dickens:
'For  as I draw closer and closer to the end  I travel in the circle nearer and nearer to the
beginning'. Following Yalom back to his beginnings is an invitation to travel nearer to our own
and the opportunity will stand as one of his most profound gifts.

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