I'm Calling the Police eBook Irvin D Yalom
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"Something heavy is going on … the past is erupting … my two lives, night and day, are joining. I need to talk." Irv Yalom's old medical school friend was making a plea for help. In their fifty years of friendship, Bob Berger had never divulged his nocturnal terrors to his close comrade. Now, finally, he found himself forced to.
In I'm Calling the Police, Berger recounts to Yalom the anguish of a war-torn past By pretending he was a Christian, Berger survived the Holocaust. But after a life defined by expiation and repression, a dangerous encounter has jarred loose the painful memory of those years. Together, they interpret the fragments of the horrific past that haunt his dreams.
I'm Calling the Police is a powerful exploration of Yalom's most vital themes--memory, fear, love, and healing--and a glimpse into the life of the man himself.
I'm Calling the Police eBook Irvin D Yalom
I thought this story was fascinating.It is the story of how Dr. Yalom, a psychiatrist, and a close friend shared and deepened their relationship. His friend, a cardiac phenom and long time fellow medical student maintained a close knowledge of one another over a professional and personal lifetime. But his friend, entering another stage of life, at a reunion, shares something more. This is that story. I have a desire to reveal it all, but I will try to offer just a bit, because he is a story teller and this would spoil it for a reader.
His friend is dealing with early life memories, a double life fraught with danger, coming out of the Holocaust. Dr. Yalom recounts this interaction, what provoked it, and how it affects him with such great candor. You know what struck me? In this story ending Dr Yalom states he had really never wanted his friend to reveal these early stories of what he had seen and gone through in the war, because it would be so painful to witness/know/face. And yet I kept thinking...he tells how early on his friend-as they began to be friends- offered him the opportunity to make money with him doing something and how their friendship was forged...it struck me as having hints of mystery, bits of "being chosen" a kind of specialness. Of "earning" his friends respect and confidence. Do you recall in the Resistance, or in groups fighting great things- the code of secrecy? This is in play here. He did not push his friend for disclosure, I think, because this TOO was one of the threads ongoing in this cardiac Dr's life-that thread-a life that walked on the edge, that risked, that demanded the kind of danger he had known early on-and in realizing this I feel that he may have not pressed his friend out of the horror of it,true of course- but also to out of the necessary aligning with a code of conduct...no one can know too much. Because they can betray you.Because that is demanded. I think that is significant to understand in their dynamic. But, hey, I'm just a teacher.
I cannot quite honestly believe what was once faced by both his friend, and also really by those within these times. I have read and lived as I could trying to listen and respect these stories, to learn something of it all- I cannot image what we are losing by way of their passing from this earth-but I do know these lessons have not yet, and may not ever be-fully integrated into our psyche. And they are so important.
It's a compelling story and I'm glad I had a K*ndle to read it.
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I'm Calling the Police eBook Irvin D Yalom Reviews
I like Yalom's stories very much. But being Polish and surrounded since childhood by stories of people who lived through Second World War, Warsaw Uprising and other atrocities, it is difficult to understand the author's fear of his friend telling him his story. However, an interesting short book.
I liked the book as Yalom is just a very good storyteller as he is interesting ,extremely interesting in the way he speaks about psychotherapy.This particular book got only 4 stars as i thought it was not so extraordinary as all the rest i read,just almost a good thriller,but still worth the reading, margot
This book underscores the depth and emotional availability of Yalom. Not only is it every bit as interesting and informative as LOVE'S EXECUTIONER but it strikes a chord at how personal it is for Yalom. The interview section is also very telling about how the field of therapy was shifting. This book receives one of my highest recommendations.
I'm Calling the Police by Irvin Yalom has the quality of writing that is so richly found in his other books. Once you get a couple of pages in, it is hard to put it down. It is a short book, and it is not a psychotherapy story in its traditional sense. It is more of an exploration of and exposure of past traumas of friend of Yalom's in a finally safe environment and relationship that this man has established for himself. I have reads reviews that complained that there is not enough depth... I don't know that depth was the intent or the point. I thought was simply unlocking of a painful past and having the courage to expose it. I did enjoy this book.
This chapter-length writing is a good addition to Yalom's many case-based narratives for which he is well known and highly respected. Unlike the stories related in his acclaimed books like Love's Executioner, which were drawn from his working with patients, I'm Calling the Police draws from an episode of longtime professional acquaintance and friendship. To encapsulate the story, a highly accomplished surgeon whom Yalom had known since they were medical students together, began to have crippling nightmares. Soon he found himself opening up to Yalom about his past, focusing particularly on when he was a young teenager in Nazi-occupied Budapest, passing as Christian and secretly working for the resistance movement. His nightmares revolved around certain of his actions during this period (mostly of omission, of keeping his head down and staying quiet in the face of Nazi cruelty and crimes) made necessary in order to keep his Jewish identity concealed.
Yalom's tale works on a number of levels. One obvious level is the questions it raises about heroism and guilt in situations of extremity. Another is in illustrating how much of the tireless drive for accomplishment and achievement can be motivated by a subconscious need for expiation and by the need to keep running ahead of one's personal demons. Additionally, this story demonstrates the uneasiness that many American Jews of Yalom's generation may feel in light of how good they have had it compared to European Jews. The final level on which this story works is in highlighting the common functional ground between pastoral/priestly figure and the modern psychotherapist in the role of confession and offering of expiation for guilt.
All of this is to say that this is one very fine piece of writing. I was initially put off by the fact that this writing is available only as an download. Luckily, my daughter got a recently as a bat Mitzvah gift and so I could access it using her device. It was the first time I used it, and by the time I had read this I had become a fan. It is hard to know what the future of publishing will be, but I think it is great that people like Yalom are participating in such alternative experiments. Yalom has devoted his retirement to writing and his output is nothing short of astonishing. In a lengthy interview conducted by his publisher, which accompanies this chapter and is in fact about as long as the chapter itself, Yalom speaks of yet another book he has planned for release later this year. We, his reading public, certainly benefit from his steady and prolific output.
I thought this story was fascinating.
It is the story of how Dr. Yalom, a psychiatrist, and a close friend shared and deepened their relationship. His friend, a cardiac phenom and long time fellow medical student maintained a close knowledge of one another over a professional and personal lifetime. But his friend, entering another stage of life, at a reunion, shares something more. This is that story. I have a desire to reveal it all, but I will try to offer just a bit, because he is a story teller and this would spoil it for a reader.
His friend is dealing with early life memories, a double life fraught with danger, coming out of the Holocaust. Dr. Yalom recounts this interaction, what provoked it, and how it affects him with such great candor. You know what struck me? In this story ending Dr Yalom states he had really never wanted his friend to reveal these early stories of what he had seen and gone through in the war, because it would be so painful to witness/know/face. And yet I kept thinking...he tells how early on his friend-as they began to be friends- offered him the opportunity to make money with him doing something and how their friendship was forged...it struck me as having hints of mystery, bits of "being chosen" a kind of specialness. Of "earning" his friends respect and confidence. Do you recall in the Resistance, or in groups fighting great things- the code of secrecy? This is in play here. He did not push his friend for disclosure, I think, because this TOO was one of the threads ongoing in this cardiac Dr's life-that thread-a life that walked on the edge, that risked, that demanded the kind of danger he had known early on-and in realizing this I feel that he may have not pressed his friend out of the horror of it,true of course- but also to out of the necessary aligning with a code of conduct...no one can know too much. Because they can betray you.Because that is demanded. I think that is significant to understand in their dynamic. But, hey, I'm just a teacher.
I cannot quite honestly believe what was once faced by both his friend, and also really by those within these times. I have read and lived as I could trying to listen and respect these stories, to learn something of it all- I cannot image what we are losing by way of their passing from this earth-but I do know these lessons have not yet, and may not ever be-fully integrated into our psyche. And they are so important.
It's a compelling story and I'm glad I had a K*ndle to read it.
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