Writing the talking cure : Irvin D. Yalom and the literature of psychotherapy

Description

A distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Irvin D. Yalom is also the United States’ most well-known author of psychotherapy tales. His first volume of essays, ‘Love’s Executioner’, became an immediate best seller, and his first novel, ‘When Nietzsche Wept’, continues to enjoy critical and popular success. Yalom has created a subgenre of literature, the “therapy story,” where the therapist learns as much as, if not more than, the patient; where therapy never proceeds as expected; and where the therapist’s apparent failure proves ultimately to be a success