Showing results by author "Irvin Yalom" in Psychological

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work - and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some 20 years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured - miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer - and is himself a philosophical counselor in training.

Internationally best-selling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Baruch Spinoza, the Jewish 17th-century secular philosopher, and of Alfred Rosenberg, outspoken Nazi ideologue, faithful servant of Hitler, the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich, and a godless mass murderer....

Exposing the many lies told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives listeners a tantalizing, almost illicit glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Fascinating, engrossing, and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves listeners with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.

Venise, 1882. La belle et impétueuse Lou Salomé somme le Dr Breuer de rencontrer Friedrich Nietzsche. Encore inconnu du grand public, le philosophe traverse une crise profonde due à ses relations orageuses avec Lou Salomé et à l'échec de leur ménage à trois avec Paul Rée.

Julius Hertzfeld, brillante professore di psichiatria presso l'università della California scopre di avere poco più di un anno di vita. Che fare quando la vita spensierata termina di colpo? Julius Hertzfeld non ha dubbi: continuerà a occuparsi dei suoi pazienti e a cercare di ridestare, nella terapia di gruppo, il sentimento della vita dentro di loro. Sa, anche, che non si sottrarrà all'ultima sfida rappresentata dal suo paziente più ostico.