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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death Audio CD – Nov. 6 2018

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Written in Irv Yalom’s inimitable storytelling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an “awakening experience”—a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging.

Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.

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Blackstone Audio
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Nov. 6 2018
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14.73 x 1.52 x 14.22 cm
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1982614552
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978-1982614553
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Irvin D. Yalom, MD, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He is the author of many books, including Love’s Executioner, Theory and Practice in Group Psychotherapy, and When Nietzsche Wept.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blackstone Audio; Unabridged AUDIO edition (Nov. 6 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1982614552
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982614553
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 159 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.73 x 1.52 x 14.22 cm

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Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University. Author of nonfiction psychiatry texts, novels, and books of stories. Currently in private practice of psychiatry in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California.

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shvk

Best death anxiety book

Reviewed in Canada on January 13, 2021

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Such a good book for those with death anxiety. Highly recommend!

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Hoovah

Good price. Delivered promptly.

Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2020

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Good price. Delivered promptly.

Reviewed in Canada on September 9, 2017

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Very helpful.

Reviewed in Canada on July 2, 2014

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Exceptionally easy and informative view of a difficult subject. Highly recommended.

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GCW

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on June 5, 2017

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Learnt a lot.

Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2015

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I lked this book on thé fear of death

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Jeff

Like the Gift of Therapy

Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2016

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This is the second book I have read from Irvin Yalom. Like the Gift of Therapy, it is underwhelming. I have the sense that he writes more to support his own ego than he does for the dissemination of knowledge. If you remove all of the self-promoting ramblings, you would be left with a book that is a fraction of the size and potentially worth reading. Saying that, if you are the type of person who is superficially interested in existentialism this author may be for you. It's unfortunate that we do not have more deep authentic existential authors writing these days. This is the readers digest version of existential psychotherapy. Those with a genuine interest in existentialism in psychology pick up something by Rollo May or Ernest Becker, but do yourself a an additional favor and also pick up some works from the existential philosophers themselves (e.g., Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, or even Kaufman's Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre).

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A First Reading Of Irvin Yalom

Reviewed in Canada on December 12, 2016

I reviewed Irvin Yalom's "Staring at the Sun" on November 26, 2007. At that time, Amazon introduced the Vine program and Yalom's book was my first Vine review. I learned a great deal from the book about Yalom's approach to psychotherapy, his love for philosophy, his naturalism, and his love for life.

All things change and pass away, including online book reviews. My review of this book was deleted when Amazon restructured the Vine program. The book survives its reviews and in one sense it is no matter. Many perceptive reviews are still available here on Amazon to help readers with the book and to help them understand if the book is for them.

An excerpt from my review still is available as I quoted from the review in a review of a documentary about Yalom, "Yalom's Cure". I don't have a copy of my initial review, but perhaps the chance quotation I saved will give readers a sense of the book and its themes. The review said in part.

"In facing and coming to terms with death, Dr Yalom counsels that one must learn to love and find meaning in one's life, as Dr. Yalom says he has been able to do in his life through his career, writing, family, and friends. Consistently with Epicurus and a host of other teachers, Dr. Yalom finds the value of life heightened by an appreciation of its transience. He writes "The way to value life, the way to feel compassion for others, the way to love anything with greatest depth is to be aware that these experiences are destined to be lost.""

After my review of "Staring at the Sun" I became interested in Yalom's writings and reviewed his three philosophical novels on Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Spinoza. I have learned from him. Philosophically inclined readers will enjoy "Staring at the Sun" as well as other books by Dr. Irvin Yalom.

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Dr. Carberry Van Tuche

Scared of what?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2019

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Irving Yalom is a practising psychiatrist who deals with people's fear of dying.
His own belief is that your consciousness simply "switches off" when you die.
His book is interesting up to the point when someone dies and it surprised me just how many people actually fear dying!
He makes a good living from it anyway!!
It is an interesting read to see exactly what fears people have about death and how it affects their lives the older they get. In the end, he tries to calm his patients fears so that they get some peace in their final days.
He doesn't take into account research in other fields such as that undertaken at the Munro Institute in Virginia or the work of Dr. Ron Moody, both of whom have researched where we go after dying.
Anyway, an interesting read if you are more biased to the atheist view of this is all there is!

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DrDave

Not what I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2016

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The first third of this book is very thought provoking. Whether you think about you mortality or not read the first third. I am sure you will be informed and thoughtful, hopefully not disturbed. After than it is a bit repetitive and the last chapter is hard work if you are not a therapist (I am not...).
Overall, I am glad I read most of the book, it does make you think and helped me think differently about life, and death. The message is simple - live for today, plan to live a long happy life, understand what the people you knew (who have died) did for you and the affect they had on you. Don't fear your mortality. If you do, read this book.

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E P Banahan

A Useful Antidote for Death related Anxiety

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2019

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If you are like me and are prone to obsessing over the realisation that you have less of your life to live than you have already lived as you try to cope with the seemingly relentless march of time, then Yalom's book provides some comforting respite. Yalom's references to philosophers through history underline for me that there is nothing unique in my anxieties about death and my strong emotions are both natural and an essential characteristic of my humanity. Yalom's book encourages me to accept that every moment spent worrying about the inevitability of my own demise is a moment which could be better spent revelling in the enjoyment of life's experience.

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B. Murray

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2016

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I heard this reviewed on A Good Read and bought it on the strength of what the reviewers said. I have read other Yalom books and do admire his warmth and humanity. He is the kind of therapist that we might all like to have ....honest,funny and honouring of the people he is seeking to help.

The book is a series of case studies of clients' death fears and anxieties and Yalom is his wonderful honest self, talking also about his issues with the subject. It's a good read, a quick read and for me, fairly satisfying but a little limiting as one case follows another.
For me the limitation of the book is his atheism and rationality concerning death

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Andrew

When you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2016

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I bought this book because I heard it reviewed on radio 4's good read, but I was pretty disappointed. The book can be summed up as .... everyone's anxiety is about fear of death whether they know it or not, the author had lots of patients where he diagnosed fear of death, his patients were less anxious after he had diagnosed them.

Maybe the book didn't do anything for me because I do not have death anxiety to any significant degree, or maybe I do and am so deep in denial that I cant see it. Whichever it is, the book did nothing for me and I abandoned it 2/3 of the way through. Possible case of having a hammer and every problem looking like a nail.

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