Author
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin Yalom is an American psychiatrist, professor emeritus at Stanford University and the author of the classic textbook Existential Psychotherapy. He also wrote the novels When Nietzsche Wept and The Schopenhauer Cure, and Love's Executioner, a collection of stories from his practice.
Books in Livria
- Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Almost nobody wants to talk about death, yet the fear of it still seeps into sleepless nights, panic and a life put off until later. Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom spent decades working with people afraid of dying, and he…
- The Gift of Therapy
Why do people who are close so often see the same road in completely different ways? Irvin Yalom gathered thirty-five years of practice into a letter to young therapists, and it became a book about how to be truly…
- Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
A seventy-year-old woman has spent eight years unable to forget an affair that lasted twenty-seven days. A scholar is afraid to open three letters. A widow, after her handbag is stolen, feels that her whole world has…