Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twel
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoirIrvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he t
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of
Undertow: Surviving the Predatory Psychiatrist—A Memoir, is only the eighth—since 1976—memoir by a survivor of therapist abuse, spotlighting the well-kept secret that such malfeasance occurs as often
To many, insanity pleas are “an excuse” to get away with murder. But what about the real people who are convicted under such circumstances? What does “criminally insane” truly mean? And what are the s
Grey’s Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist’s charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard.Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psy
From the bestselling author of the classic book on ADD, Driven to Distraction, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell's celebrated career.When Edward M. Hallowell was e
Country Madness is a delightfully quirky memoir of a Singaporean psychiatrist in rural England who has an acute eye for cultural differences as well as the wonderful frailties of the human psyche. In
