Orem Library

Follows a therapist and five sets of his patients as they struggle with their relationships and inner selves.

Follows a therapist and five of his patients as they struggle with their relationships and inner selves.

"Yalom describes his patients' struggles-- as well as his own-- to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end"--Dust jacket flap.

Boston psychotherapist Zee Finch faces emotional chaos after the suicide of one of her patients and travels home to Salem for a visit, where she unexpectedly finds herself assisting her father, who suffers from Parkinson's disease.

Chloe, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of a young woman 13 years ago, Tom Clone is declared innocent thanks to new evidence. When psychologist Alan Gregory is called in to ease Tom's return to life beyond bars, the young man's treatment will become one of the darkest, most menacing cases of Alan's career.

A richly evocative novel set in 19th-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis.

"First published in 1989, this ... collection of ten tales by distinguished psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has become a classic. ... Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too human...

At once startlingly profound and irrestibly practical, the author's insights-let the patient matter to you; create a new kind of therapy for each patient; how and how not to use self-disclosure-help enrich the therapeutic process for both patient and counselor.