At the age of 74, best-selling author Irvin Yalom turns his attention to one of the great human questions: our fear of death. He suggests that what he calls the 'awakening experience' can help us acknowledge, accept, and make use of our fear of death in a positive manner. These awakening experiences often follow a loss, a trauma, or the death of a loved one, illness or just growing old. Yalom shows us how such an awakening can be the turning point for a more meaningful life.

This is a practical and tremendously useful book that includes methods and techniques for dealing with the most prevalent kinds of fear: anxiety that is hidden and appears to us as other problems in our lives. Dr. Yalom argues that once we confront our own mortality, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.

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7 hours and 46 minutes
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Irvin D. Yalom
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Sean Mangan
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9 July 2010
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English
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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1742339166
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	7 hours and 46 minutes
Author	Irvin D. Yalom
Narrator	Sean Mangan
Audible.com.au Release Date	09 July 2010
Publisher	Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	1742339166
Best Sellers Rank	10,451 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 24 in Developmental Psychology (Books) 31 in Grief & Loss 56 in Love & Loss

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Faye

Two Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 9 June 2018

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This book came highly recommended and so my expectations were equally high. The content failed to deliver.

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Jennykching

A deep and life affirming book.

Reviewed in Australia on 10 August 2018

Wrongly rated by Amazon as receiving 100% 2 star ratings. If you go to the review page you'll see it's actually garnered nearly 80% x 4 and 5 star ratings. This is unfortunate as it's a brilliant and fascinating book. Very helpful for non therapists (anyone who struggles with the human condition really!) as well as therapists. Wonderful writing style that is both insightful, rich and accessible. Please Amazon, revise the overall rating you have given here, which does not reflect the actual ratings given this important book.

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Dr. Carberry Van Tuche

Scared of what?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2019

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Irving Yalom is a practising psychiatrist who deals with people's fear of dying.
His own belief is that your consciousness simply "switches off" when you die.
His book is interesting up to the point when someone dies and it surprised me just how many people actually fear dying!
He makes a good living from it anyway!!
It is an interesting read to see exactly what fears people have about death and how it affects their lives the older they get. In the end, he tries to calm his patients fears so that they get some peace in their final days.
He doesn't take into account research in other fields such as that undertaken at the Munro Institute in Virginia or the work of Dr. Ron Moody, both of whom have researched where we go after dying.
Anyway, an interesting read if you are more biased to the atheist view of this is all there is!

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DrDave

Not what I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2016

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The first third of this book is very thought provoking. Whether you think about you mortality or not read the first third. I am sure you will be informed and thoughtful, hopefully not disturbed. After than it is a bit repetitive and the last chapter is hard work if you are not a therapist (I am not...).
Overall, I am glad I read most of the book, it does make you think and helped me think differently about life, and death. The message is simple - live for today, plan to live a long happy life, understand what the people you knew (who have died) did for you and the affect they had on you. Don't fear your mortality. If you do, read this book.

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E P Banahan

A Useful Antidote for Death related Anxiety

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2019

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If you are like me and are prone to obsessing over the realisation that you have less of your life to live than you have already lived as you try to cope with the seemingly relentless march of time, then Yalom's book provides some comforting respite. Yalom's references to philosophers through history underline for me that there is nothing unique in my anxieties about death and my strong emotions are both natural and an essential characteristic of my humanity. Yalom's book encourages me to accept that every moment spent worrying about the inevitability of my own demise is a moment which could be better spent revelling in the enjoyment of life's experience.

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B. Murray

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2016

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I heard this reviewed on A Good Read and bought it on the strength of what the reviewers said. I have read other Yalom books and do admire his warmth and humanity. He is the kind of therapist that we might all like to have ....honest,funny and honouring of the people he is seeking to help.

The book is a series of case studies of clients' death fears and anxieties and Yalom is his wonderful honest self, talking also about his issues with the subject. It's a good read, a quick read and for me, fairly satisfying but a little limiting as one case follows another.
For me the limitation of the book is his atheism and rationality concerning death

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Andrew

When you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2016

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I bought this book because I heard it reviewed on radio 4's good read, but I was pretty disappointed. The book can be summed up as .... everyone's anxiety is about fear of death whether they know it or not, the author had lots of patients where he diagnosed fear of death, his patients were less anxious after he had diagnosed them.

Maybe the book didn't do anything for me because I do not have death anxiety to any significant degree, or maybe I do and am so deep in denial that I cant see it. Whichever it is, the book did nothing for me and I abandoned it 2/3 of the way through. Possible case of having a hammer and every problem looking like a nail.

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