A practical and inspiring guide to healing the soul. Edith Eger gently suggests a path for changing the thoughts and behaviors that keep us trapped, analyzes 12 common psychological problems, and offers tools to solve them.
Edith Eva Eger was born in Hungary. She was a teenager when, together with her family, she was sent to Auschwitz.
Despite all odds being against her, Edith survived the Holocaust and later emigrated with her husband and young daughter to America, where she earned a doctorate degree and became a practicing psychologist. For decades she hid from her past, struggling with memories and survivor’s guilt. Thirty-five years after the end of World War II, Edith returned to Auschwitz and finally was able to heal and forgive herself.
Today, Dr. Eger is an outstanding psychologist, a member of several professional associations. She maintains a clinical practice in La Jolla (California), teaches psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and helps veterans, service members, and victims of physical and psychological trauma. Edith Eger has appeared on CNN and in Oprah Winfrey’s show, and she was the main character of a documentary about the Holocaust that aired on Dutch National Television.