Every Day Gets a Little Closer by Ginny Elkin - ISBN: 9780465021185
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Two minds, one journey: therapist and patient intimately reveal their process.

Every Day Gets a Little Closer

A Twice-Told Therapy

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    2 January 1991

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Summary

The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love’s Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated, the first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient.

Ginny Elkin was a troubled, young, and talented writer whom the psychiatric world had labeled as “schizoid.” After trying a variety of therapies, she entered into private treatment with Dr. Irvin …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780465021185
ISBN-10:0465021182
Author:Ginny Elkin, Irvin Yalom
Publisher:Basic Books
Imprint:Basic Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:2 January 1991
Weight:258g
Dimensions:212mm x 138mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

“Very articulate patients are not the easiest to help, and it is a privilege to see in such depth how one of America’s best psychotherapists goes about each session with a worthy sparring partner. But quite apart from its psychotherapeutic interest, this is a riveting story of people whose strengths and weaknesses are mutually shared, and it can and should be read as literature–not only as a wise and frank instruction.”–Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex

About The Author

Ginny Elkin

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundation’s Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author of When Nietzsche Wept (winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction), Love’s Executioner, Every Day Gets a Little Closer (with Ginny Elkin), and the classic textbooks Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy. Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, among other books. He is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University.

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