Irvin D Yalom, M.D.

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is one of the world's foremost psychiatrists, a visionary therapist and internationally bestselling author. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, When Nietzsche Wept, the Schopenhauer Cure , and most recently A Matter of Death and Life , a dual memoir written with his late wife, Marilyn Yalom, PhD. His textbooks Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Existential Therapy are standards for therapists in...See more

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is one of the world's foremost psychiatrists, a visionary therapist and internationally bestselling author. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, When Nietzsche Wept, the Schopenhauer Cure , and most recently A Matter of Death and Life , a dual memoir written with his late wife, Marilyn Yalom, PhD. His textbooks Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Existential Therapy are standards for therapists in training worldwide. In 2014 he was the subject of the documentary Yalom's Cure . Now in his nineties, Dr. Yalom continues to live and write in Northern California. See less