Momma And The Meaning Of Life: Tales From Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom (PDF)

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As the public grows disillusioned with therapeutic quick fixes, people are looking for a deeper psychotherapeutic experience to make life more meaningful and satisfying. What really happens in therapy? What promises and perils does it hold for them? No one writes about therapy – or indeed the dilemmas of the human condition – with more acuity, style, and heart than Irvin Yalom. Here he combines the storytelling skills so widely praised in Love’s Executioner with the wisdom of the compassionate and fully engaged psychotherapist. In these six compelling tales of therapy, Yalom introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters: Paula, who faces death and stares it down; Magnolia, into whose ample lap Yalom longs to pour his own sorrows; Irene, who learns to seek out anger and plunge into it. And there’s Momma, old-fashioned, ill-tempered, who drifts into Yalom’s dreams and tramples through his thoughts. At once wildly entertaining and deeply thoughtful, Momma and the Meaning of Life is a work of rare insight and imagination.

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⭐Silly me, who didn’t realize this was a book of non-fiction until I was well into it. The first chapter seemed beautiful and “litry” to me, and so I proceeded, thinking this might be like “When Neitzsche Wept” but it wasn’t. Instead, it was more like several stories loosely sewn together into a sort of crash course in psychotherapy, which did not reflect particularly well on the field of psychotherapy or its practitioners.I learned in Twelve-Step recovery that EGO stands for Easing God Out, and there was a lot of EGO in these pages – too much for me – until I encountered a hugely redeeming thread running through: mortality (the practically verboten subject of death). To me, THIS is The Subject most worthy of consideration in life, yet many hide their heads in the sand, as if not seeing The Subject renders it specious. It is regrettable that some are so fearful of “the debt of death” that they refuse “the loan of life.”Yalom himself admits that his “frenzied life pace was but a clumsy attempt to quell death anxiety.” He thinks the field of medicine may have beckoned to him because “it offers the only hope of mastery over death” and, in a way, it did. When he and a colleague led a support group for terminal cancer patients, they did not find people who were bitter and morose; they found people whose death sentences had “bestowed a special poignancy” to life. One group member shared that “it took till now, till our bodies were riddled with cancer, to know how to live.”One of my favorite lines in this book says, “You’ve got to find your own song to sing.” It yanked my head out of the sand, so to speak. I agree with Yalom that “the most enlightened individuals are those aware of their destination” and when he says, “You and I are just fellow travelers through this life, both of us listening to the bell tolling.” I hope we are both listening. Because we are all terminal.

⭐I love the other books of the author, but this one is just a bit slow and quite depressing.

⭐What else is there to say it’s the legendary Dr Yalom what’s not to love

⭐I like Dr. Yalom’s “tales of psychotherapy” usually, but this one missed, in my opinion. Yalom came off cranky, afraid of death, and bitter towards his mother, for whatever reason that I felt was none of my business. His case stories, as always, were interesting, though, and the book is well written and, mostly, thoughtful and incisive. Yalom needs to watch his tendency towards arrogance and a bit of a condescending attitude, particularly towards women. He’s a great psychotherapist, from what I understand of his reputation, and he needs to let that shine a little more, at times, in this book.

⭐Enjoyed this book.

⭐I have always really enjoyed Irvin Yalom’s real life tales of psychotherapy. His honesty and willingness to share insights into his therapeutic process is inspiring. Though I enjoyed Loves Executioner quite bit more, I found this to quench my desire to read further stories of therapy from a masters perspective.

⭐I simply don’t care how much is real and how much is not I just got a sense of reality throughout and to my own inner self as I relate to the therapist role… wow so much depth and tips on how to brings forth the equality concept … loved it !

⭐Having read Irvin Yalom’s novel The Spinoza Problem which was a fascinating psychological comparison of Spinoza and Nazi propagandists, I wanted to explore his non-fiction.What I got was better than I expected. Momma and the Meaning of Life contains several poignant stories that cast light onto the process of death and dying. His stories show how the process can be ennobling–especially when it is nurtured by a gifted therapist.

⭐Disappointed with condition of this book which was not as described. Pages all very yellow. Book is curled.

⭐Arrives quickly (before Virus delivery) .

⭐Such a thoughtful and well-written book.

⭐Brilliant book!

⭐The book is very integrated with self. Reading momma and the meaning of life seems as like the book was talking to me directly. Anyone can certainly relate to it especially if meaning of life and understanding one’s self is an important factor for the person. I loved it and Yalom the author with his beautiful insight of life and awareness.

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