CONTENTS

1. COVER
2. TITLE PAGE
3. COPYRIGHT
4. DEDICATION
5. CHAPTER ONE: The Birth of Empathy
6. CHAPTER TWO: Searching for a Mentor
7. CHAPTER THREE: I Want Her Gone
8. CHAPTER FOUR: Circling Back
9. CHAPTER FIVE: The Library, A–Z
10. CHAPTER SIX: The Religious War
11. CHAPTER SEVEN: A Gambling Lad
12. CHAPTER EIGHT: A Brief History of Anger
13. CHAPTER NINE: The Red Table
14. CHAPTER TEN: Meeting Marilyn
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN: College Days
16. CHAPTER TWELVE: Marrying Marilyn
17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: My First Psychiatric Patient
18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Internship: The Mysterious Dr. Blackwood
19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Johns Hopkins Years
20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Assigned to Paradise
21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Coming Ashore
22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: A Year in London
23. CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Brief, Turbulent Life of Encounter Groups
24. CHAPTER TWENTY: Sojourn in Vienna
25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Every Day Gets a Little Closer
26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Oxford and the Enchanted Coins of Mr. Sfica
27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Existential Therapy
28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Confronting Death with Rollo May
29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Death, Freedom, Isolation, and Meaning
30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Inpatient Groups and Paris
31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Passage to India
32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Japan, China, Bali, and Love’s Executioner
33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: When Nietzsche Wept
34. CHAPTER THIRTY: Lying on the Couch
35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Momma and the Meaning of Life
36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: On Becoming Greek
37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: The Gift of Therapy
38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Two Years with Schopenhauer
39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Staring at the Sun
40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Final Works
41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Yikes! Text Therapy
42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: My Life in Groups
43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: On Idealization
44. CHAPTER FORTY: A Novice at Growing Old
45. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
46. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
47. ALSO BY IRVIN D. YALOM