Over the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established
himself as the world''s leading group psychotherapist. In STARING AT
THE SUN, he explores how the knowledge of our own mortality affects
the unconscious mind of every human being. Tackling the effect of
mankind''s fear of death - both conscious and unconscious - on life
and how we might live it, Yalom explains how we find ourselves in
need of the comfort of therapy. At age 70 and facing his own fear
of death, which he discusses in a special afterword, Dr Yalom
tackles his toughest subject yet and finds it to be the root cause
of patients'' fears, stresses and depression. If therapists are to
deliver ''the gift of therapy'', they must confront the realities of
life for themselves and their practice, as must we all.
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Dr Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford
University. He has won two major awards from the American
Psychiatric Association and is the author of the highly regarded
Love''s Executioner and Moomma and the Meaning of Life. He continues
to run his clinical practice and lectures widely.