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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Truman Capote claimed to have invented the nonfiction novel. Irvin D. Yalom's claim is the teaching novel. After the success of his textbook, "Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy," Yalom, a ...

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 ...

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 ...