Reading, cont'd
Jan. 7th, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeStill plugging away here. :)
3- Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psycotherapy (Irvin D. Yalom); these are ten short stories that are in fact case studies. Or ten case studies that are in fact short stories. It's hard to say. What this book is, though, is a haunting exploration about the anguish we all experience when faced with the prospect of our own annihilation. "Death anxiety" is the jargon associated with the feeling, but it's really so much more than that, and Yalom probes the feeling with exquisite delicacy, allowing us a glimpse not only into the psychoanalytic world, but into his own mind, into his own world, into the world of his patients, and, ultimately, into our own consciousness. Also, this was one of the first books that I forced myself to read at a sedate pace: only one or two stories at a time. Otherwise, I felt, I wouldn't actually be getting the full force of the stories, wouldn't really be assimilating the meaning behind the words. It's strong stuff. Recommended reading. :)
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3- Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psycotherapy (Irvin D. Yalom); these are ten short stories that are in fact case studies. Or ten case studies that are in fact short stories. It's hard to say. What this book is, though, is a haunting exploration about the anguish we all experience when faced with the prospect of our own annihilation. "Death anxiety" is the jargon associated with the feeling, but it's really so much more than that, and Yalom probes the feeling with exquisite delicacy, allowing us a glimpse not only into the psychoanalytic world, but into his own mind, into his own world, into the world of his patients, and, ultimately, into our own consciousness. Also, this was one of the first books that I forced myself to read at a sedate pace: only one or two stories at a time. Otherwise, I felt, I wouldn't actually be getting the full force of the stories, wouldn't really be assimilating the meaning behind the words. It's strong stuff. Recommended reading. :)
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