The Hour of the Heart. Therapy Here and Now

At the end of his long practice, world-renowned psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom makes an unusual decision: now he has only one hour for a meeting with a patient and just one opportunity to help a person change their life.
In this deeply personal book, Irvin D. Yalom shares the most intense and candid consultations. People come to him with a fear of death, deep-rooted loneliness, unbearable guilt, broken relationships, and a lost sense of purpose in life. Working in his favorite therapeutic approach of «here and now», Irvin D. Yalom shows how honesty, openness, and vulnerability of the psychotherapist can lead to important discoveries for the patient even in sixty minutes.
But this book is not only about patients. At ninety years old, faced with his own limitations, memory loss, and the death of his beloved wife, Irvin D. Yalom increasingly turns to his own life — childhood, profession, questions of aging, and the meaning of the years lived.
This is an honest and personal confession from the Master of Psychotherapy, the creator of therapeutic prose about time, memory, and the power of human closeness.