Love's Executioner, and Other Tales of Psychotherapy: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom. Harper Perennial, $13.5 (270pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097334-6
In 10 tales of personal transformation related by the psychotherapist author, each patient makes some headway in overcoming compulsions, depression, hypertension or whatever--yet each also comes face fo face with larger problems such as the inevitability of death or the existential need to give one's life meaning. ``Yalom's humanism shines through in these wise, moving stories,'' commended PW. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 08/29/1990
Genre: Nonfiction