Creatures of a Day, and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look.

Like Love's Executioner and Yalom's other writings, Creatures of a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face every day: to make our own lives meaningful.

©2015 Irvin D. Yalom (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Philosophy in psychotherapy

I absolutely love Dr. Yalom's writings and the many experiences he shared here. The mention of how existentialism plagues us more than we often say was a key factor in these pages.

The best book, the best narrative

Irvin Yalom is the best author, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer. His ability to put scientific, clinical observations in a thrilling, detective-like story is beyond imagination. It’s a textbook and bestseller at once. The narration is amazing too. It’s like audio theater.

Love love love

Soooo nice like his other books. It's amazing all of it, the story, the writing and how it's read.

An illuminating look at psychoanalysis

Worth the credit if for no other reason than to understand how a truly psychoanalytical psychiatrist does his or her's work. I enjoyed it.

Awesome!

Refreshing insightful illuminating energizing piercing truthful read and reread insatiable well narrated couldn't have enough of it.

With narration a 4, better narration a 5.

I loved the book it was an excellent read as one who follows Yalom religiously. However, I had some difficulty listening to this narration. I often found it confusing as to who was speaking as the distinction between characters and narrator was not always the best. I also thought that listening to an obviously older voice used for younger characters was part of the problem for me.
It's probably a minor personal preference so I would recommend this audiobook as is

a lot off fluffed up banter

The lessons and there are many of them conveyed in this book could have been conveyed And a brief and concise format the would've consisted of approximately 10 pages. The fact that a whole book an elaborate story lines were created to transmit the few gems that are Santa only serves to detract from the overall wonder that this book could have been. The fact that a author has to write a book is not an excuse to drown out the message in pages and pages of useless narrative.

I hear you Irvin.

Liked the human sensibility psychotherapists are capable of achieving.
Would loved to have worked with Irvin as a mentor and patient.
Many roads lead to the Rome of psychotherapy. His way is a great way.
There are other ways but Yalom sets a high standard.
As a retired psychiatrist, Yalom's books provide great continuing education. I plan to read or listen to them all.

beautiful stories and very good narration

learned a lot as a psychologist, but I didn't have the feeling I was learning

Great Narrator

I love listening to Yalom’s insights. He is brilliant. It helps to have such a great narrator. He sounded quite similar to Yalom (to group videos I listened to in graduate school for counseling). Rich content.