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Writing the Talking Cure : Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy /

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', cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Jeffrey, 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9781438473895