His writing on existential psychology centers on what he refers to as the four "givens" of the human condition: isolation, meaninglessness, mortality and freedom, and discusses ways in which the human person can respond to these concerns either in a functional or dysfunctional fashion. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existential psychotherapy. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and promoted over the following years, being granted tenure in 1968. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. After graduating from high school, he attended George Washington University and then Boston University School of Medicine.Īfter graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960.
Yalom spent much of his childhood reading books in the family home above the grocery store and in a local library. About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's Jewish parents emigrated from Russia (though their country of origin was Poland or Belarus) and eventually opened a grocery store in Washington DC. Irvin David Yalom ( / ˈ ɜːr v ɪ n ˈ j æ l ə m/ born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Fascinating, engrossing and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves readers with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith.George Washington University, Boston UniversityĮpicurus, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Otto Rank, Rollo May Driven by his sincere desire to help and his faith in psychoanalysis, he invents a radically new approach to therapy - a totally open and honest relationship with a patient that threatens to have devastating results.Įxposing the many lies that are told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives readers a tantalizing, almost illicit, glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients.
From the bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients.
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