LOVE’S EXECUTIONER AND OTHER TALES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY <i> by Irvin Yalom MD (Basic Books: $19.95; 288 pp.) </i>

”. . . He gives the reader an un-airbrushed picture of the therapist, warts and all. And throughout this book, he raises thorny questions about the nature of life, and of the various assumptions that guide and hinder practitioners of the art of psychotherapy on their precarious way.”