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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Psychiatrist Irv Yalom is 83. I call him Irv because that’s what he asks his psychiatric patients to call him. I picture him as a sprightly firecracker of a guy, tooling around San Francisco on his ...

A revered psychotherapist gets personal. By THR Staff An autumnal portrait for followers of psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom, Sabine Gisiger’s Yalom’s Cure doesn’t really provide the remedies it ...

I'm fortunate to have spoken with Irvin Yalom a few times. The interviews usually have a particular focus, but as it is in many conversations, some of the best material is off topic. Today I thought I ...

I'm fortunate to have spoken with Irvin Yalom a few times. The interviews usually have a particular focus, but as it is in many conversations, some of the best material is off topic. Today I thought I ...