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Irvin D. Yalom has made it his life's work to explore the lives of others. In Moving Encounters, his long-awaited memoir, he turns his therapeutic gaze on himself and delves into the human relationships that shaped him and the ground-breaking work that made him famous. A descendant of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Yalom grew up in a poor neighborhood in Washington, DC. Determined to get away from his childhood neighborhood, he set out to become a doctor, and this led to an incredible social ascent. We follow him from the beginning of his career at Stanford Medical School in the middle of the turbulent 1960s through his choice of the fictional form as a vehicle for further psychiatric exploration to his international fame. Yalom talks about his pioneering work in group therapy and how he became the most prominent practitioner of existential psychotherapy – a method that draws on the wisdom found in great thinkers from ancient times to the present day. He reveals the sources of inspiration for several of his ground-breaking books, including The Executioner of Love and When Nietzsche Wept, where he mixes psychology and philosophy to arrive at new, exciting approaches to the plight of man. Interweaving the stories of some of his most memorable patients with his own personal accounts of love and loss, Yalom in this book brings readers closer to the therapeutic technique he uses, his writing process, and his family life. In Moving Encounters, Yalom draws wisdom from a line by Charles Dickens: "For as I approach the end of my life, I walk in a circle, and draw the beginning nearer and nearer." Following Yalom back to the beginning of his life gives us a chance to approach our own beginning – and this chance will stand as one of his greatest gifts to humanity.
