Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir Audiobook (Free)

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself within the couch in a lapidary memoir

Irvin D. Yalom provides made a profession of investigating the lives of others. Within this deep memoir, he transforms his composing and his therapeutic attention on himself. He starts his story having a nightmare: He is twelve, and is traveling his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like each morning, he phone calls out, expecting to befriend her, ‘Hello Measles!’ But in his desire, the girl’s dad makes Yalom recognize that his daily greeting experienced hurt her. For Yalom, this was the delivery of empathy; he’d not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds, we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to a lot of. This is not simply a man’s lifestyle story, Yalom’s reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the roots of our own selves as well as the meanings of our lives.