The choice / Edith Eger with Esme Schwall Weigand.

  • Eger, Edith Eva
Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Description

In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith's bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive.In The Choice, Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped ever since. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed psychologist whose patients include survivors of abuse and soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison, and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering.Like Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, but exceptional in its own right, The Choice is life changing. Warm, compassionate and infinitely wise, it is a profound examination of the human spirit, and our capacity to heal.

Publication/Creation

London : Rider, 2017.

Physical description

377 pages ; 22 cm

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic information

Includes forward by Philip Zimbardo.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PUP /EGE
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1846045118
  • 9781846045110
  • 184604510X
  • 9781846045103