Yalom Love's Executioner

Irvin D. Yalom is a licensed psychiatrist and professor at Stanford Medical School. Schooled in Rogerian here-and-now, unconditional-personal-regard theory, Yalom presents 10 case studies from his private practice in Love’s Executioner & Other Tales of Psychology. Each story is a mixture of psychiatry and literature. Analyzing each patient’s acting out behaviors, Yalom attempts to provide a demonstration of what he believes is the main therapeutic benefit of psychiatry – the mutual learning and relationship shared between client and therapist. Throughout the case studies which are semi-fictional and disguised to preserve therapist-client integrity, the issues of death (existential anxiety), love, sexuality, and freedom weave the narratives together and underscore universal aspects of the human condition. As Yalom (1989, 7) notes regarding death in his Prologue “There is another way—a long tradition, applicable to psychotherapy—that teaches us that full awareness of death ripens our wisdom

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Approximate Word count = 717
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)

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