Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom
Born Irvin David Yalom
(1931-06-13) June 13, 1931
Washington, D.C.
Residence United States
Alma mater George Washington University
Spouse(s) Marilyn Yalom
Children 4
Scientific career
Fields Psychotherapy
Institutions Stanford University
Influences Otto Rank

Irvin David Yalom (/ˈɜːrvɪn ˈjæləm/; born 13 June 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.[1] About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's Jewish parents emigrated from Russia (though their country of origin was Poland) and eventually opened a Washington DC grocery store. 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 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 the psychotherapy can be considered as psychosophy.

He is married to author and historian Marilyn Yalom. They have four children: Eve, a gynecologist, Reid, a photographer, Victor, a psychologist and entrepreneur and Ben, a theater director.

Awards

Publications

Novels and stories

  • 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[8] ISBN 0-465-09172-5
  • 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[9][10] ISBN 978-0-06-621441-2
  • 2005 I'm calling the police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery[11]
  • 2012 The Spinoza Problem[12] 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 (5th edition 2005)
  • 1980 Existential Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-02147-6
  • 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[13] ISBN 0-066-21440-8
  • 2008 Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death[14][15] ISBN 978-0-7879-9668-0
  • 2017 Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir ISBN 0-465-09889-4

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Irvin D. Yalom MD: Autobiographical Note
  2. ↑ Previous Strecker Award Recipients
  3. ↑ Rockefeller Foundation: The Mix Residents
  4. ↑ The Commonwealth Club of California: The California Book Awards Winners 1931 - 2012
  5. ↑ Oskar Pfister Award: Past Winners
  6. ↑ Irvin D. Yalom, MD: Religion and Psychiatry
  7. ↑ Sigmund Freud Award: Award Winners
  8. ↑ Joseph Coates: Placing Nietzsche At The Dawn of Psychoanalysis, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 1992
  9. ↑ Excerpt The Schopenhauer Cure by Psychotherapie.net
  10. ↑ Judith Viorst: The Schopenhauer Cure, The Washington Post, 23 February 2005
  11. ↑ Irvin D. Yalom MD, Robert Berger MD: I´m calling the police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery by Psychotherapy.net
  12. ↑ Ron Charles: The Spinoza Problem, The Washington Post, 22 February 2012
  13. ↑ Excerpt The Gift of Therapy by Psychotherapie.net
  14. ↑ Excerpt Staring At the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death by Psychotherapie.net
  15. ↑ Nathan A. Heflick: Overcoming the Terror of Death, Psychologie Today/The Big Questions, 29 April 2011
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