An important film for anyone interested in the human mind and our capacity to understand it and each other. Best-selling author, popular scholar and existentialist, 80-year-old Irvin D. Yalom is one of the most influential living psychotherapists in the world.
This documentary is a journey through the many layers of the human mind, in which Yalom shares his insights and wisdom, which stress the importance of relationships. Dr Yalom’s books have sold millions of copies and critics describe him as “mind-bending”, “stunning”, “inspiring” and “life-changing”.
"All of us
are creatures of a day,” wrote Marcus Aurelius, “rememberer and remembered
alike.” In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist
Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients’ struggles—as well as his own—to come to
terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful
life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end.
In these pages, we meet a
nurse, angry and adrift in a morass of misery where she has lost a son to a
world of drugs and crime, and yet who must comfort the more privileged through
their own pain; a successful businessman who, in the wake of a suicide,
despairs about the gaps and secrets that infect every relationship; a newly
minted psychologist whose study of the human condition damages her treasured
memories of a lost friend; and a man whose rejection of philosophy forces even
Yalom himself into a crisis of confidence.
Creatures
of a Day is funny, earthy, and often shocking; it is a
radically honest statement about the difficulties of human life, but also a
celebration of some of the finest fruits—love, family, friendship—that life can
bear. We are all creatures of a day.
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