Like Freud Yalom is a graceful and canny writer. The fascinating moving enervating
inspiring unexpected stuff of psychotherapy is told with economy and most surprising with
humour.- Washington Post Book WorldThe collection of ten absorbing tales by master
psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries frustrations pathos and humour at the
heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas Yalom not only gives
us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us
his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too human responses with his sensibility as
a psychiatrist. Not since Freud has an author done so much to clarify what goes on between a
psychotherapist and a patient.
