Irvin D. Yalom
| Irvin David Yalom | |
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 Irvin D. Yalom
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| Born | June 13, 1931 Washington DC, US[1] |
| Residence | USA |
| Fields | Psychotherapy |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | George Washington University, Boston University[2] |
Irvin David Yalom (b. June 13, 1931 in Washington DC), M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist psychotherapist, and an author of fiction and nonfiction.
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[edit] Life and Work
Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, of parents who came to the US from Russia,[3] he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as 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 then promoted over the next several years and granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy[4] and developing his model of existential psychotherapy[5]
In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Yalom has produced a number of novels and also experimented with writing techniques. In Everyday Gets a Little Closer[6] 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.
The American Psychiatric Association awarded Irvin Yalom the 2000 Oskar Pfister Award (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry).[7]
Yalom has continued to maintain a part-time private practice and has authoried a number of video documentaries on theapeutic techniques.[8] 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.
[edit] Publications
[edit] Novels
- (1992) When Nietzsche Wept
- (1996) Lying on the Couch
- (2005) The Schopenhauer Cure
- (2012) The Spinoza Problem
[edit] Nonfiction
- (1970 1st ed, 1975 2nd ed., 2005 5th ed.) The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
- (1974) Every Day Gets a Little Closer
- (1980) Existential Psychotherapy
- (1983) Inpatient Group Psychotherapy
- (1989) Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
- (1998) The Yalom Reader
- (1999) Momma and the Meaning of Life
- (2001) The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
- (2008) Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.yalom.com/framemaker.php?nav=cv
- ^ http://www.yalom.com/framemaker.php?nav=cv
- ^ http://www.yalom.com/framemaker.php?nav=cv
- ^ Yalom ID: The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy New York: Basic Books, 1970.
- ^ Yalom ID: Existential Psychotherapy New York: Basic Books, 1980.
- ^ Yalom ID and Elkins G: "Everyday gets a Little Closer" New York: Basic Books, 1974.
- ^ Yalom's acceptance speech delivered at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in May 2000 at New Orleans
- ^ http://www.yalom.com/
[edit] External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Irvin D. Yalom |
- Yalom's website
- American Group Psychotherapy Association
- Radio interview on Philosophy Talk
- Yalom, I. The Gift of Therapy (excerpt). Psychotherapy.net.
- Yalom, I. The Schopenhauer Cure (excerpt). Psychotherapy.net.
- Yalom, I. Staring At the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death (excerpt). Psychotherapy.net.
- Yalom, I. & R. Berger. "I'm Calling the Police! A Tale of Repression and Recovery" (article). Psychotherapy.net.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201104/overcoming-the-terror-death
