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Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Early life Yalom was born in Washington, D.C. About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's Jewish parents emigrated from Belarus and eventually opened a grocery store in Washington DC. Yalom spent much of his childhood reading books in the family home above the grocery store and in a local library. After graduating from high school, he attended George Washington University and then Boston University School of Medicine. Career After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and promoted over the following years, being granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existential psychotherapy. His writing on existential psychology centers on what he refers to as the four "givens" of the human condition: isolation, meaninglessness, mortality and freedom, and discusses ways in which the human person can respond to these concerns either in a functional or dysfunctional fashion. In 1970, Yalom published The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, speaking about the research literature around group psychotherapy and the social psychology of small group behavior. This work explores how individuals function in a group context, and how members of group therapy gain from his participation group. In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Yalom has produced a number of novels and also experimented with writing techniques. In Every Day Gets a Little Closer Yalom invited a patient to co-write about the experience of therapy. The book has two distinct voices which are looking at the same experience in alternating sections. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standard reading for psychology students. His new and unique view of the patient/client relationship has been added to curriculum in psychology programs at such schools as John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Yalom has continued to maintain a part-time private practice and has authored a number of video documentaries on therapeutic techniques. Yalom is also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight from Death, a film that investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences. The Irvin D. Yalom Institute of Psychotherapy, which he co-directs with Professor Ruthellen Josselson, works to advance Yalom's approach to psychotherapy. This unique combination of integrating more philosophy into psychotherapy can be considered as psychosophy. He was married to author and historian Marilyn Yalom, who died on November 20, 2019. Their four children are: Eve, a gynecologist, Reid, a photographer, Victor, a psychologist and entrepreneur and Ben, a theater director. Awards 1974: Edward Strecker Award for significant contribution to the field of psychiatry patient by The University Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry 1976: Foundation's Fund Award for research in psychiatry by The American Psychiatric Association 1977: Fellowship Award by The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1987: Fellowship Award by The Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio, Italy) 1992: Commonwealth Club Gold Award for fiction best novel (When Nietzsche Wept) by The Commonwealth Club of California 2001: Oskar Pfister Award for important contributions to religion and psychiatry by the American Psychiatric Foundation/American Psychiatric Association 2009: International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy of the city of Vienna, Austria by The World Council for Psychotherapy Publications Fiction and memoir 1974 Every Day Gets a Little Closer ISBN 0-465-02119-0 1989 Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-04280-5 1992 When Nietzsche Wept ISBN 0-465-09172-5 (Kindle edition 2019) 1996 Lying on the Couch ISBN 0-465-04295-3 1999 Momma and the Meaning of Life ISBN 0-749-92038-6 2005 The Schopenhauer Cure ISBN 978-0-06-621441-2 2005 I'm Calling the Police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery 2012 The Spinoza Problem ISBN 0-465-02963-9 2015 Creatures of a Day - And Other Tales of Psychotherapy, ISBN 978-0-465-02964-8 Nonfiction 1970 The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-09284-5 (6th edition 2020) 1980 Existential Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-02147-6 (Kindle edition 2020) 1983 Inpatient Group Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-03298-2 1996 The Yalom Reader ISBN 0-465-03610-4 2001 The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients ISBN 0-066-21440-8 2008 Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death ISBN 978-0-7879-9668-0 2017 Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir ISBN 0-465-09889-4 2021 A Matter of Death and Life, co-written with Marilyn Yalom ISBN 1503613763 Filmography 2003 Flight from Death (directed by Patrick Shen, featuring Ron Leifer, Robert Jay Lifton, Merlyn Mowrey and Sheldon Solomon and Irvin D. Yalom) 2007 When Nietzsche Wept (directed by Pinchas Perry, featuring Ben Cross, Armand Assante, Katheryn Winnick) 2014 Yalom's Cure (directed by Sabine Gisiger) See also responsibility assumption References External links Official website The musical composition of On the Threshold, dedicated to Dr. Yalom by International Iranian philosophical composition, Pezhman Mosleh: You can find following text in Dr. Yalom’s Facebook about the music: An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift: a musical composition and video arrangement. Hans Steiner, MD, Stanford University, School of Medicine: Laudatio for Irvin David Yalom, MD, Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie. Discover the Irvin Yalom popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Irvin Yalom books.
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Into the Abyss
Anthony David‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmWe cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of th...
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Inseparables
Irvin D. Yalom & Marilyn YalomUna oda al amor, además de precioso homenaje al cuidado de los seres queridos que aborda todos los temas existenciales que nos conciernen.Vuelve Irvin Yalom, uno de los psicoanalis...
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On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
Sigmund FreudThese works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our '...
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Keeping Your Head in the Game
Gary BloomDrawing on his work with elite athletes, the world's first sports psychotherapist on what to do when life throws you a curveball'Cracking tales, a great read' Nigel Owens MBE, rugb...
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Existential Psychotherapy
Irvin D. YalomThe definitive account of existential psychotherapy. First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered to be the foundational text in its field the first...
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33 Meditations on Death
David JarrettAS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving brilliant and profound'"Brilliant a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern a...
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Tell Me the Truth About Love
Susanna Abse'Brilliant and touching' Maggie O'Farrell'A mustread for everyone wanting to understand more about what makes us fall in and out of love' Philippa Perry'A charming, useful, kind ...
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Der Sinn des Lebens
Alfred AdlerDieses eBook: "Der Sinn des Lebens" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. In seinem Alterswerk Der ...
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund FreudA collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO ...
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Treating Body, Mind and Soul
Jan de VriesShortly after the success of his autobiography A STEP AT A TIME, many readers asked Jan de Vries for more information regarding his 45 years of experience in the practice of naturo...
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Der Sinn des Lebens
Alfred AdlerIn seinem Alterswerk Der Sinn des Lebens fasste Adler seinen der Individualpsychologie zugrunde liegenden philosophischen Tenor zusammen. Der Ausdruck "Sinn des Lebens" hat...