Irwin Yalom (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 13th printing of this 2nd edition contains 135 more pages than the first edition. A classic by a great writer who is also a great therapist. DJ has a small tear.

Very good condition. Third Edition. Dust jacket: Very good. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE. Fine (a few nearly imperceptible foxed spots edge of the text block) in near fine dust jacket with some minor bumping head edeg of spine and one tip. Hardcover. x+ 270 pp. A classic by a key contributor in its field. In this rare glimpse of the thoroughly engaged therapist at work. a master psychiatrist openly confronts not only his own feelings and errors but the uncertainty at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. These ten tales vividly re-create the way Yalom breaks through uncertainty to a patient's untimate truth--to the fear of death, for instance, behind the life-defying nostalgia of Thelma (the elderly patient of the title story) who is possessed by a long-past love affair. Or behind the macho behavior of Carlos, a middle aged man compulsively lustful in the face of his terminal cancer. Dealing with death, meaninglessness, isolation and freedom, the cases read like narrative fiction. Nearly impossible to find signed. Signed.…