Irvin D. Yalom Irvin David Yalom M.D.

(born 13 June 1931) is an American existential psychiatri st who is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as au thor of both fiction and nonfiction. Early life Irvin David Yalom was born in Washington DC.[1] About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's parents immigrated from Russia and eventual ly opened a Washington DC grocery store on 1st Street and Seaton Place. Yalom sp ent much of his childhood reading books in the family house above the grocery st ore and in a local library. After graduating from high school, he attended Georg e Washington University and then Boston University School of Medicine. Career After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as a Do ctor 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 a t the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his tra ining in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Ho nolulu, 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 grante d tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contri butions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existe ntial psychotherapy. His writing on existential psychology centres on what he refers to as the four " givens" of the human condition: isolation, meaninglessness, mortality and freedo m, and discusses ways in which the human person can respond to these concerns ei ther in a functional or dysfunctional fashion. In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Yalom has produced a number o f novels and also experimented with writing techniques. In Everyday Gets a Littl e 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 altern ating sections. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standar d reading for psychology students. His new and unique view of the patient/client relationship has been added to curriculum in Psychology programs at such school s 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 relation ship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences. The Irvin D. Yalom Institute of Psychotherapy, co-directed by Prof Ruthellen Jos selson, works to advance Yalom's approach to psychotherapy. This unique combinat ion of integrating more Philosophy into the Psychotherapy can be considered as P sychosophy. He is married to Marilyn Yalom. Publications Novels and stories 1974 Every Day Gets a Little Closer ISBN 0-465-02119-0 1989 Loves Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-04280-5 1999 Momma and the Meaning of Life ISBN 0-749-92038-6 1992 When Nietzsche Wept[2] ISBN 0-465-09172-5 1996 Lying on the Couch ISBN 0-465-04295-3 1996 Yalom Reader ISBN 0-465-03610-4 2005 The Schopenhauer Cure[3] [4] ISBN 0-066-21411-6 2005 Im calling the police! A Tale of Regression and Recovery[5]

2012 The Spinoza Problem[6] ISBN 0-465-02963-9 Nonfiction 1970 The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-09284-5 5th editi on 2005 1980 Existential Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-02147-6 1983 Inpatient Group Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-03298-2 2001 The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and T heir Patients[7] ISBN 0-066-21440-8 2008 Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death[8] [9] ISBN 0-787-996680 Filmography 2003 Flight from Death (directed by Patrick Shen, featuring Ron Leifer, Robert J ay 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) Awards 1974: Edward Strecker Award for significant contribution to the field of psychia try patient by The University Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Ps ychiatry[10] 1976: Foundations Fund Award for reserch in psychiatry by The American Psychiatri c Association 1977: Fellowship Award by The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Scienc es 1987: Fellowship Award by The Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio, Italy)[11] 1992: Commonwealth Club Gold Award for fiction best novel (When Nietzsche Wept) by The Commonwealth Club of California[12] 2001: Oskar Pfister Award for important contributions to religion and psychiatry by the The American Psychiatric Foundation/American Psychiatric Association[13] [14] 2009: International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy of the city of Vienna, Austria by The World Council for Psychotherapy[15]