Momma And The Meaning Of Life. Tales From Psychotherapy

A fascinating meditation on the meaning of life through a psychotherapist's unforgettable patients-from the author of The Gift of Therapy. As the public grows disillusioned with therapeutic quick fixes, people are looking for a deeper psychotherapeutic experience to make life more meaningful. 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 a 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 theMeaning of Life is a work of rare insight and imagination.