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==Career==
==Career==
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, New York|Mount Sinai Hospital]] in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of [[Johns Hopkins University|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<ref>Yalom ID: ''The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy'' New York: Basic Books, 1970.</ref> and developing his model of [[existential psychotherapy]]<ref>Yalom ID: ''Existential Psychotherapy'' New York: Basic Books, 1980.</ref>
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, New York|Mount Sinai Hospital]] in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of [[Johns Hopkins University|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 and developing his model of [[existential psychotherapy]].


His writing on existential psychology centres 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.
His writing on existential psychology centres 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 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''<ref>Yalom ID and Elkins G: "Everyday gets a Little Closer" New York: Basic Books, 1974.</ref> 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.
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''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|''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, co-directed by Prof [[Ruthellen Josselson]], works to advance Yalom's approach to psychotherapy. This unique combination of integrating more Philosophy into the Psychotherapy can be considered as [[Psychosophy]].
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|''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, co-directed by Prof [[Ruthellen Josselson]], works to advance Yalom's approach to psychotherapy. This unique combination of integrating more Philosophy into the Psychotherapy can be considered as [[Psychosophy]].
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==Publications==
==Publications==


===Novels===
===Novels and stories===
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*1974 ''[[Every Day Gets a Little Closer]]'' ISBN 0-465-02119-0
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*(1992) ''[[When Nietzsche Wept (novel)|When Nietzsche Wept]]''
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*1989 ''[[Love´s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy]]'' ISBN 0-465-04280-5
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*(1996) ''[[Lying on the Couch]]''
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*1999 ''[[Momma and the Meaning of Life]]'' ISBN 0-749-92038-6
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*(2005) ''[[The Schopenhauer Cure]]''
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*1992 ''[[When Nietzsche Wept (novel)|When Nietzsche Wept]]'' ISBN 0-465-09172-5
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*(2012) ''[[The Spinoza Problem]]''
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*1996 ''[[Lying on the Couch]]'' ISBN 0-465-04295-3
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*1996 ''[[Yalom Reader]]'' ISBN 0-465-03610-4
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*2005 ''[[The Schopenhauer Cure]]'' ISBN 0-066-21411-6
*2005 ''[[I´m calling the police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery]]''<ref>[http://archive.is/SEDrt Irvin D. Yalom MD, Robert Berger MD: ''I´m calling the police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery'' by psychotherapy.net]</ref>
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*2012 ''[[The Spinoza Problem]]'' ISBN 0-465-02963-9


===Nonfiction===
===Nonfiction===
*(1970 1st ed, 1975 2nd ed., 2005 5th ed.) ''[[The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy]]''
*1970 ''[[The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy]]'' ISBN 0-465-09284-5 5th edition 2005
*1980 ''[[Existential Psychotherapy]]'' ISBN 0-465-02147-6
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*(1974) ''[[Every Day Gets a Little Closer]]''
*(1980) ''[[Existential Psychotherapy]]''
*1983 ''[[Inpatient Group Psychotherapy]]'' ISBN 0-465-03298-2
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*2001 ''[[The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients]]'' ISBN 0-066-21440-8
*(1983) ''[[Inpatient Group Psychotherapy]]''
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*2008 ''[[Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death]]'' ISBN 0-787-99668-0
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*(1989) ''[[Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy]]''

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*(1998) ''[[The Yalom Reader]]''
==Filmography==
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*(1999) ''[[Momma and the Meaning of Life]]''
*2003 ''[[Flight from Death]]'' (directed by [[Patrick Shen]], featuring Ron Leifer, [[Robert Jay Lifton]], Merlyn Mowrey and [[Sheldon Solomon]] and Irvin D. Yalom)
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*(2001) ''[[The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients]]''
*2007 ''[[When Nietzsche Wept]]'' (directed by Pinchas Perry, featuring [[Ben Cross]], [[Armand Assante]], [[Katheryn Winnick]]
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*(2008) ''[[Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death]]''


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
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* 1987: ''Fellowship Award'' by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], Bellagio, Italy<ref>[http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/f514b4c5-6297-4611-bc9a-f946b46a0fea.pdf Rockefeller Foundation ''The Mix: Residents'']</ref>
* 1987: ''Fellowship Award'' by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], Bellagio, Italy<ref>[http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/f514b4c5-6297-4611-bc9a-f946b46a0fea.pdf Rockefeller Foundation ''The Mix: Residents'']</ref>
* 1992: ''Commonwealth Club Gold Award for fiction best novel ([[When Nietzsche Wept (novel)|When Nietzsche Wept]])''<ref>[http://www.commonwealthclub.org/sites/default/files/u123/Official%20Complete%20California%20Book%20Awards%20Winners.pdf The Commonwealth Club of California: ''The California Book Awards Winners 1931 - 2012'']</ref>
* 1992: ''Commonwealth Club Gold Award for fiction best novel ([[When Nietzsche Wept (novel)|When Nietzsche Wept]])''<ref>[http://www.commonwealthclub.org/sites/default/files/u123/Official%20Complete%20California%20Book%20Awards%20Winners.pdf The Commonwealth Club of California: ''The California Book Awards Winners 1931 - 2012'']</ref>
*2001: ''[[Oskar Pfister Award]] for important contributions to religion and psychiatry'' by the American Psychiatric Foundation/[[American Psychiatric Association]]<ref>[http://www.americanpsychiatricfoundation.org/what-we-do/awards/oskar-pfister-award''Oskar Pfister Award: Past Winners'']</ref><ref>[http://www.fundacion-salto.org/documentos/Religion%20and%20Psychiatry.pdf Irvin d. Yalom, M.D.: ''Religion and Psychiatry'']</ref>
*2001: ''[[Oskar Pfister Award]] for important contributions to religion and psychiatry'' by the American Psychiatric Foundation/[[American Psychiatric Association]]<ref>[http://www.americanpsychiatricfoundation.org/what-we-do/awards/oskar-pfister-award''Oskar Pfister Award: Past Winners'']</ref><ref>[http://www.fundacion-salto.org/documentos/Religion%20and%20Psychiatry.pdf Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.: ''Religion and Psychiatry'']</ref>
* 2009: ''International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy of the city of Vienna, Austria by the [[World Council for Psychotherapy]]''<ref>[http://www.worldpsyche.org/cms-tag/122/sigmund-freud-award Sigmund Freud Award: ''Award Winners'']</ref>
* 2009: ''International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy of the city of Vienna, Austria by the [[World Council for Psychotherapy]]''<ref>[http://www.worldpsyche.org/cms-tag/122/sigmund-freud-award Sigmund Freud Award: ''Award Winners'']</ref>


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*Yalom, I. [http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/The_Schopenhauer_Cure ''The Schopenhauer Cure'' (excerpt)]. [http://www.psychotherapy.net Psychotherapy.net.]
*Yalom, I. [http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/The_Schopenhauer_Cure ''The Schopenhauer Cure'' (excerpt)]. [http://www.psychotherapy.net Psychotherapy.net.]
*Yalom, I. [http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/Staring_at_the_Sun ''Staring At the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death'' (excerpt)]. [http://www.psychotherapy.net Psychotherapy.net.]
*Yalom, I. [http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/Staring_at_the_Sun ''Staring At the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death'' (excerpt)]. [http://www.psychotherapy.net Psychotherapy.net.]
*Yalom, I. & R. Berger. [http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/Im_Calling_the_Police "I'm Calling the Police! A Tale of Repression and Recovery" (article)]. [http://www.psychotherapy.net Psychotherapy.net.]
* http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201104/overcoming-the-terror-death
* http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201104/overcoming-the-terror-death
* [http://www.hanssteiner.com/storage/Steiner%20Yalom%20Laudatio%202012.pdf ''Laudatio for Irvin David Yalom, M.D.,'' von Hans Steiner, M.D., Stanford University, School of Medicine] in the [http://www.v-r.de/de/magazine_edition-0-0/zeitschrift_fuer_individualpsychologie_2012_37_3-1009490/ Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie Nr. 37, Seite 293–304, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2012, ISSN 0342-393X]
* [http://www.hanssteiner.com/storage/Steiner%20Yalom%20Laudatio%202012.pdf ''Laudatio for Irvin David Yalom, M.D.,'' von Hans Steiner, M.D., Stanford University, School of Medicine] in the [http://www.v-r.de/de/magazine_edition-0-0/zeitschrift_fuer_individualpsychologie_2012_37_3-1009490/ Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie Nr. 37, Seite 293–304, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2012, ISSN 0342-393X]

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Irvin David Yalom
Born (1931-06-13) June 13, 1931 (age 93)
Washington, D.C.
Alma materGeorge Washington University
Scientific career
FieldsPsychotherapy
InstitutionsStanford University

Irvin David Yalom M.D. (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

Irvin David Yalom was born June 13, 1931 in Washington DC.[1] About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's parents immigrated from Russia and eventually opened a Washington DC grocery store on 1st Street and Seaton Place. Yalom spent much of his childhood reading books in the family house 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 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 and developing his model of existential psychotherapy.

His writing on existential psychology centres 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 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 CloserYalom 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, co-directed by Prof Ruthellen Josselson, works to advance Yalom's approach to psychotherapy. This unique combination of integrating more Philosophy into the Psychotherapy can be considered as Psychosophy.

He is married to Marilyn Yalom.

Publications

Novels and stories

Nonfiction

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. ^ Irvin D. Yalom M.D.: Autobiographical Note
  2. ^ Irvin D. Yalom MD, Robert Berger MD: I´m calling the police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery by psychotherapy.net
  3. ^ Previous Strecker Award Recipients
  4. ^ Rockefeller Foundation The Mix: Residents
  5. ^ The Commonwealth Club of California: The California Book Awards Winners 1931 - 2012
  6. ^ Oskar Pfister Award: Past Winners
  7. ^ Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.: Religion and Psychiatry
  8. ^ Sigmund Freud Award: Award Winners
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