Summary
Irvin D. Yalom: About myself - the story of a psychotherapist
Just ten days after the American publication, in October 2017, this Yalom book of memories and memoirs arrived in front of domestic readers. Every book by this great magician of psychotherapy is a reading event of the first order, and this one is more than that because, according to Yalom himself, this is his last book. Having engaged in psychotherapy work for years and peering into other people's lives, this time Yalom directed his writer's and therapeutic eyes towards himself and his life - early childhood, growing up, parents, family, education, choice of medicine and psychiatry as a profession, marriage, children, writing books, everyone who influenced him... He describes events from psychotherapy practice, but he does not hide his deepest and most hidden feelings, his fears, he writes about aging and the deceitfulness of memory... Everything is illustrated by a selection of photos from albums of family and professional life. Yalom admitted that this is the book he always wanted to write. He wrote hard and long, delaying the moment of completion, but he finished with pride and sadness. - "It was hard for me to finish this book. I hated that I had to let go, because I knew it would be my last book." This is not just an ordinary human story about one life, but also an invitation to sometimes take an honest and deep look into our own lives. What kind of man is Irvin Yalom when he is not in the role of a psychotherapist? How and where did Yalom write his biggest reader hits? How, writing his memories, did he get to know himself from his youth again? What is Yalom's greatest fear? How does a person change while walking the path of life, meeting other people's destinies? This is a book in which Irvin Yalom - a great man and an icon of humanistic psychotherapy, someone who throughout his life peered into other people's lives - reveals to readers his true self, his innermost self, himself in the past, present and future. Dr. Zoran Milivojević, psychotherapist, president of the Association of Psychotherapists Associations of Serbia (P6)
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