Yalom Reader

Dr Irvin Yalom is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of many books, including Creatures of a Day and the bestselling Love's Executioner. He and his wife, the author Marilyn Yalom, live in Palo Alto, California.

• Group Psychotherapy * The Therapeutic Factors: What It Is that Heals (with excerpts from The Theory and Group Psychotherapy) * Working in the Here and Now: Creating an Interactional Approach (with excerpts from The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy) * Working with Specialized Groups: Hospitalized Psychiatric Groups, the Terminally Ill, Alcoholics, and the Bereaved (with excerpts from Inpatient Group Psychotherapy) Existential Psychotherapy * The Four Ultimate Concerns: Death, Freedom, Isolation and Meaninglessness * Death, Anxiety, and Psychotherapy (with excerpts from Existential Psychotherapy) On Writing * Psychology Informing Literature: Literary Vignettes * Literature Informing Psychology: Ernest Hemingway: A Psychiatric View * The Journey from Psychotherapy to Literature (with Patient Vignettes from The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Every Day Gets a Little Closer and Loves Executioner) * The Teaching Novel (with excerpts from When Nietzsche Wept) * The Psychological Novel (with excerpts from Lying on the Couch)