BECOMING MYSELF

Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therape utic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl . Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, Hello Measles! But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understan d that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy/ he would not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds...[Read more]