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 ...

Having taken on the origins of psychotherapy in the popular When Nietzsche Wept, psychiatrist-novelist Yalom now turns to group therapy and the thinker sometimes known as the "philosopher of pessimism ...

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 it possible to plan a “good death?” Can one gracefully leave this world to the next generation? Can one live meaningfully until the very end? Photo of Irvin and Marilyn Yalom in the entry hall of ...

Irvin D. Yalom (MD, Boston University, 1956) is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, a prolific author and speaker on psychotherapy and existentialism. His first book The Theory ...