Explores Yaloms profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.A distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom is also the United States most wellknown author of psychotherapy tales. His first volume of essays Loves Executioner became an immediate best seller and his first novel When Nietzsche Wept continues to enjoy critical and popular success. Yalom has created a subgenre of literature the therapy story where the therapist learns as much as if not more than the patient where therapy never proceeds as expected and where the therapists apparent failure provesultimately to be a success.Writing the Talking Cure is the first book to explore all of Yaloms major writings. Taking an interdisciplinary approach Jeffrey Berman comments on Yaloms profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature and emphasizes the recurrent ideas that unify his writings the importance of the therapeutic relationship therapist transparency hereandnow therapy the prevalence of death anxiety reciprocal healing and the idea of the wounded healer. Throughout Berman discusses what Yalom can teach therapists in particular and the common and uncommon reader in general.