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Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply affecting accounts of his work with these and seven other patients. Deep down, all of them were suffering from the basic human anxieties - isolation, fear of death or freedom, a sense of the meaninglessness of life - that none of us can escape completely. And yet, as the case histories make touchingly clear, it is only by facing such anxieties head on that we can hope to come to terms with them and develop. Throughout, Dr Jalom remains refreshingly frank about his own errors and prejudices; his book provides a rare glimpse into the consulting room of a master therapist. 'Dr Yalom demonstrates once again that in the right hands, the stuff of therapy has the interest of the richest and most inventive fiction' Eva Hoffman, New York Times 'These remarkably moving and instructive tales of the psychiatric encounter bring the reader into novel territories of the mind.

A story of astronauts and orbits that turns out to be really about gravity of a different kind — what pulls people toward each other, and what it costs to hold a life together across distance. Beautifully paced, and it lingered.

Believable characters and Great storytelling

The period in which it is set and how the main chalecter fate slowly unfolds

I find that I like the period in which it is set in also the language being used for that period in time

Period in which it was set and also the use of language

I like the period it is set in and how the fatalist characters slowly unfolds

A whole new way of looking at life. Almost through a magnifying glass.

A new look at the world around us. Breath taking.

Action, romance, love, heartache just about everything.

A fantastic read about psychologhy and human beings. A must read.