“Documents, anecdotes, quotations, diary entries, abstracts of serious research, polemical notes for memory — all this is collected in a brilliant textbook, which at the same time is a popularization of the most serious problems,” Leonid Krol, editor-in-chief and publisher of a new psychotherapeutic series, describes this work in the preface.
“Documents, anecdotes, quotations, diary entries, abstracts of serious research, polemical notes for memory — all this is collected in a brilliant textbook, which at the same time is a popularization of the most serious problems,” Leonid Krol, editor-in-chief and publisher of a new psychotherapeutic series, describes this work in the preface. Irvin Yalom focuses on the pain points of every person’s life: fear of death, loneliness, meaninglessness and freedom. What happens to us when we ourselves or others «press» them? With many specific examples, Yalom shows different reactions, from pathological to effective, and the transition paths from the first to the second. Much of Existential Psychotherapy sounds like it has a direct bearing on our present here-and-now situation, even though more than 30 years have passed since the publication of this classic work. For example: “One of the most common dynamic defenses against awareness of responsibility is the creation of a mental world in which there is no experience of freedom, but existence under the rule of some irresistible force alien to the Ego (“not I”). It seems that this is similar to the state that many residents of Russia are experiencing today.
Class, 576 p.