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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death: Being at peace with your own mortality - Hardcover
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From Love's Executioner to The Gift of Therapy, over the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist. In this new work, Staring at the Sun, Dr. Yalom opens the 'mortal wound', our knowledge of death. Carried by each and every human being, death anxiety is the price for our self-awareness and the shadow from which we cannot be separated. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we turn to our children, to wealth, to fame, or to a belief in a higher power to soften death's terror. But in spite of the staunchest, most venerable of our defences, death anxiety is never completely subdued: it is always there, lurking in the hidden ravines of our minds. At age 70 and facing his own fear of death, which he will discuss in a special after-word - Dr. Yalom tackles his toughest subject yet, and finds it to be the root cause of patients' fears, stressors and depression. If therapists are to do their best to deliver 'the gift of therapy', they must confront the realities of life for themselves and their practice, as must we all. This book is a book of wisdom for us all about how to cope with our 'ultimate concerns'.
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Unlike many psychotherapists, Yalom writes like a dream (OXFORD TIMES)
Like many of Yalom's books, Staring at the Sun (2008) was written for everyone: the lay person, the student of psychotherapy, and the professional. The lay reader will no doubt find Yalom's writing completely accessible and profoundly human. The student (Kevin S. D. Wallace, B.A)
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A book of wisdom to help us overcome our anxiety of death
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- PublisherPiatkus
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0749928093
- ISBN 13 9780749928094
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages320
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good condition hard cover, with fair condition jacket, some wear to the cover and spine, internally clean and tidy with unmarked pages. Seller Inventory # 64853
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. London. Piatkus Books. Hard Cover. Orange Boards with gilt titles. Condition of Book and wrapper is fine. In this work, psychotherapist Irvin Yalom tackles our knowledge of death. He finds that 'death anxiety' is the price for our self-awareness and the root cause of many patients' fears, stressors and depression. He goes on to explain how we can cope with our foreknowledge of death. Seller Inventory # #V3010001
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