Existential Psychotherapy » (1st Edition)

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundation's Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author of When Nietzche Wept (winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction), Love's Executioner, Every Day Gets a Little Closer (with Ginny Elkin), and the classic textbooks Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy.

Distills the essence of a wide range of therapies into a creative synthesis, opening up a new way of understanding each person’s confrontation with four ultimate concerns: isolation, meaninglessness, death, and freedom.