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Staring At The Sun

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3rd September 2020

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349426075

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Each person fears death in their own way. Despite turning to the comforts of children, or wealth, or belief in a higher power, death anxiety is never completely subdued: it is always there, lurking in the hidden ravines of our minds.

In STARING AT THE SUN, master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom faces his own fear of death and examines its role in many patients’ fears, stresses and depression. With characteristic wisdom and illuminating case histories, he shows how confronting and coping with death allows us to live in a richer, more compassionate way.

Reviews

GUARDIAN
[Yalom is] an amazing storyteller, a gorgeous writer, a great, generous, compassionate thinker and - quite rightly - one of the world's most influential mental healthcare practitioners
Rollo May
Yalom writes like an angel about the devils that besiege us
BOOKSELLER
The idea that the anxiety of facing death can prompt an awakening to life strikes a powerful chord
THE BOOKSELLER
The idea that the anxiety of facing death can prompt an awakening to life strikes a powerful chord
OXFORD TIMES
Unlike many psychotherapists, Yalom writes like a dream