I'm fortunate to have spoken with Irvin Yalom a few times. The interviews usually have a particular focus, but as it is in many conversations, some of the best material is off topic. Today I thought I ...

The proverb “physician, heal thyself” comes to mind while watching “Yalom’s Cure,” a fittingly meditative documentary portrait of psychotherapist-professor Irvin D. Yalom that offers a candid glimpse ...

If the future of psychotherapy lies in psychopharmaceuticals and the short-term therapies stipulated by HMOs, argues Yalom, then the profession is in trouble. Yalom, the recipient of both major awards ...

Novelist and psychiatrist Yalom (The Spinoza Problem) offers 10 tales from his clients that illuminate the gifts of psychotherapy, particularly the hopeful lessons one can glean from it in the context ...

Popular scholar, novelist and existentialist Irvin Yalom chimes in on the Seven Questions. To my delight, I was able to conduct this interview in person. The Seven Questions project asks the same ...

A revered psychotherapist gets personal. By THR Staff An autumnal portrait for followers of psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom, Sabine Gisiger’s Yalom’s Cure doesn’t really provide the remedies it ...

Truman Capote claimed to have invented the nonfiction novel. Irvin D. Yalom's claim is the teaching novel. After the success of his textbook, "Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy," Yalom, a ...

The first person we meet in Irvin Yalom’s novel “The Schopenhauer Cure” is a 65-year-old San Francisco psychiatrist in seemingly good health who is shocked to learn that he has a fatal illness. As a ...

How are we supposed to grapple with the knowledge that soon we will be nothing? How do we live a meaningful life with the always-looming threat of death? That’s what Dr. Irvin Yalom of Stanford ...

Among the innumerable treasures the Nazis stole from Europe during World War II was a collection of books displayed at the Spinoza Museum in Rijns­burg, Holland. Compared with the Rembrandts and ...