If the future of psychotherapy lies in psychopharmaceuticals and the short-term therapies stipulated by HMOs, argues Yalom, then the profession is in trouble. Yalom, the recipient of both major awards ...

Is there room for a novel about Baruch Spinoza in a publishing market crowded with supernatural creatures and kinky romance? Irvin D. Yalom thinks so. In fact, there’s plenty of room to describe the ...

In 1989, a Stanford professor of psychology published a collection of stories inspired by his work with patients. He wrote about their struggles to come to terms with what he called the four “givens” ...

Novelist and psychiatrist Yalom (The Spinoza Problem) offers 10 tales from his clients that illuminate the gifts of psychotherapy, particularly the hopeful lessons one can glean from it in the context ...

In Creatures of a Day, his 2015 collection of short case studies, eminent psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom looks at 10 intriguing “tales of psychotherapy” from his personal archives. In them, he convinces ...

When I read The Gift of Therapy after my internship, I felt liberated. I started my first year of independent practice with a newfound confidence and ease born directly from my first foray into the ...

Is psychiatry mostly art, science, or hocus-pocus? The short answer: It depends on whom you ask, what condition you’re looking to treat — and what time frame you have in mind. The debate two years ago ...

Irvin Yalom has a problem with fat women. ”I find them disgusting,” he writes, ”their absurd sidewise waddle, their absence of body contour-breasts, laps, buttocks, shoulders, jawlines, cheekbones, ...

Popular scholar, novelist and existentialist Irvin Yalom chimes in on the Seven Questions. To my delight, I was able to conduct this interview in person. The Seven Questions project asks the same ...