
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
Description
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoir.
Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds, we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to so many. This is not simply a man's life story, Yalom's reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the origins of our own selves and the meanings of our lives.
Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds, we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to so many. This is not simply a man's life story, Yalom's reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the origins of our own selves and the meanings of our lives.

مذكرات طبيب نفسي
عن الكتاب
مذكرات طبيب نفسي بقلم إرفين د. يالوم ... بعد أن أقام إرڤن د. يالوم مساره المهني على استكشاف حياة الآخرين، يتوجه في هذه المذكرات القوية بكتابته ونظرته العلاجية إلى نفسه. يستفتح قصته بحكاية كابوس راوده: يقود إرڤن في الثانية عشرة من عمره دراجته أمام منزل فتاة يغطي حَب الشباب وجهها. وكعادته كل صباح، صاح بها معيرًا على أمل أن تنشأ بينهما صداقة: "مرحبًا أيتها المحصوبة!" لكن في الحلم يظهر والد هذه الفتاة ويجعل يالوم يفهم أن تحياته اليومية تؤذيها. في نظر يالوم، كان هذا إيذانًا بمولد التعاطف، فلن ينسى الدرس بعدها. ومع مجريات الكتاب، نرى مولد المفكر المتبصر الذي أضاء الطريق للكثيرين. هذه ليست قصة حياة رجل بسيط، فتأمُّلات يالوم لحياته وتطوره دعوة لنا للتأمل في أصول صفاتنا النفسية ومعاني حيواتنا.