![]() I’d like to mention in particular one story that started off the collection on a bang for me with Thelma, “a depressed, suicidal, seventy-year-old woman,” who for the past eight years “could not relinquish her obsessive love for a man thirty-five years younger.” Yalom writes his patients with the utmost respect and interest. Though the problems may be considered “common problems of everyday life,” Love’s Executioner made them seem like anything but. Yet somehow (a “somehow” that unfolds differently in each story), therapy uncovered deep roots of these everyday problems-roots stretching down to the bedrock of existence.” Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy offers a keen insight on ten patients, from all walks of life, who turned to therapy, “all ten were suffering the common problems of everyday life: loneliness, self-contempt, impotence, migraine headaches, sexual compulsivity, obesity, hypertension, grief, a consuming love obsession, mood swings, depression. Yalom’s newest release Becoming Myself, where he mentioned this collection of stories which sounded more fitting because my attention span was slight at the time. ![]()
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