Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate,...
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Number of Pages: 358
ISBN: 0060938102
ISBN-13: 9780060938109
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Atiyenur Uygur @Atiye
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Jul 3, 2023
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This is a great book by Irvin D. Yalom, which I loved. It presents snippets from a therapy group and a psychobiography of Arthur Schopenhauer who is known as “ Philosopher of pessimisim”.
“And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state which soon enough reveals underlying unpalatable truths about existence—our insignificance, our meaningless existence, our inexorable progression to deterioration and death.”