Irvin D. Yalom

- Irvin D. Yalom (2008) Staring at the sun: overcoming the terror of death is a book that is written by Irvin D. Yalom (2008), who is an existential psychiatrist and an emeritus faculty of Stanford University. Over the past decades, Yalom has impacted the field of existential psychology remarkably, and his ideas contribute to existential psychotherapy as well. In this book, Yalom fully addresses how to overcome one’s inner terror of death by telling multiple affecting stories of his own and his psychotherapy sessions with his clients. While using the existential approach, Yalom is able to provides a comprehensive understanding of why confronting death is important for individuals. At the beginning of the book, Yalom indicates that the fear of death tends to generate negative consequences and symptoms to many individuals, such as anxiety and depression. Thus, he discusses potential…

Love 's Executioner and Creatures of a Day, by Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, are two riveting and insightful compilations of Dr. Yaloms ' life work as a Psychotherapist. Both are composed of various tales that shed some light on some of humanities greatest struggles, and Yaloms ' journey to guide his patients through the darkest times in their lives. Through these two writings, Dr. Yalom, is able to depict not just the development of his characters, but reveal his own growth and development as a…

Confederate Army, to his surprise the number of volunteers surpassed that amount; however, the Union Army swelled with inexperienced volunteers while citizens were so naïve in regards to the effects a battle would bring, to the point that “innumerable civilians…followed the Union Army…to watch what everyone thought would be the climactic battle of a short rebellion”, disregarding the consequences the battle will have on them being so close to the battlefield. There was also the belief that the…

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density in your bones. Also smoking, alcoholism, caffeine intake, and malnutrition are major risk factors. Malnutrition can include not enough intake of calcium. People that are lactose intolerant are also at risk. Some endocrine disorders such as hyperthyroidism, hyperparathryroidism, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cushing’s syndrome put people at risk. Major complications that occur with this disorder can be hip and wrist factures, loss of mobility and compression fractures of the spine. Osteoporosis…

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good for people? The sun is beneficial in some ways in others harmful, such as Vitamin D, but harmful if getting skin cancer. There have been studies that have said Sun is good but a little too much of the sun be the cause much harm to a human body. The sun is giving resource, but it can cause some form of skin cancer when people get over exposed. The good in it is when it gives people vitamin D and light to see at during the day. Considering, Vitamin D is a good source that the body need and…

Video games have been transformed so much thought the years. Starting from pong in the 70’s to modern day video games. As society advances so do video games and their importance in modern culture. The more complicated we make video games the more we see there is controversy around it, but that’s not the main transformation this paper will be focusing on. The transformation I see the most would be between the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation 4 consoles. The Nintendo 64 was a stepping stone for…

7). Given Vitamin D and Calcium’s healing properties, it’s unlikely that Glucosamine and/or Alendronate were able to achieve the pain and joint stiffness reductions alone. Therefore, the degree in which Vitamin D and Calcium impacted the findings of the study is unknown. A suggestion to avoid this co-intervention bias is to not administer vitamin D and/or Calcium or any other additional healing agent to participants. This is likely to reduce the likelihood that the results were impacted by…

reliable. Chief complaint: “My left hip hurt.” Present illness: Left hip started hurting since yesterday, it is constant pain. She rated 4/10. The pain feels dull that does not radiate to anywhere. The pain is aggravated by stationary sitting, and it is relieved by “up and moving around”. She has not taken anything for the left hip pain. She has no other associated functional inability related to her complaints. Able to perform activities of daily living without restriction. Patient expressed…