AutobiographicalNote
Iwasborn in Washington, D.C., June 13, 1931, of
parentswhoimmigratedfromRussia(fromasmallvillage
namedCeltznearthePolishborder)shortlyafterthefirst
worldwar.HomewastheinnercityofWashingtonasmall
apartment atop my parents grocery store on First and
Seaton Street. During my childhood, Washington was a
segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor, black
neighborhood.Lifeonthestreetswasoftenperilous.Indoor
used(sevenhundredthousandcopies)asatextfortraining
therapists.Ithasbeentranslatedintotwelvelanguagesand
isnowinitsfourthedition.Mypublisherforthisbookand
everyoneofmysubsequentbooksisBasicBookswithwhom
I have had a long and excellent relationship. Instructors
praisemygrouptherapytextbecauseitisbasedonthebest
availableempiricalevidence.Isuspect,however,thatitowes
some of its success to storytellingto a stream of brief
human vignettes running throughout the text. For twenty
yearsIhaveheardstudentstellmethatitreadslikeanovel.
OthertextsfollowedExistentialPsychotherapy(atextbook
foracoursethatdidnotexistatthetime),InpatientGroup
Psychotherapy (a guide to leading groups in the inpatient
psychiatricward).EncounterGroups:FirstFacts,aresearch
monographthatisoutofprint.Then,inanefforttoteach
aspects of Existential Therapy I turned to a literary
conveyance and in the past several years have written a
bookoftherapytales(Love'sExecutioner),Mommaandthe
MeaningofLife(acollectionoftrueandfictionalizedtalesof
therapy)andthreeteachingnovels (WhenNietzscheWept,
LyingontheCouch, and TheSchopenhauerCure). Though
thesebookshavebeenbestsellerstoageneralaudienceand
havebeenreviewedoftenbothfavorablyandunfavorably
on their literary merit (When Nietzsche Wept won the
CommonwealthGoldMedalforbestfictionof1993andin
2009washonoredbytheViennaBookfairandonehundred
thousandfreecopiesdistributedtothecitizensofVienna),I
intended them as pedagogical worksbooks of teaching
storiesandanewgenretheteachingnovel.Theyhavebeen
widely translatedeach into about fifteen to twenty
languagesandhavehadconsiderabledistributionabroad.
WhenNietzscheWept,forexample,wasonthetopofthe
Israelibestsellerlistforoverfouryears.Ananthology,The
YalomReader,waspublishedbyBasicbooksattheendof
1997. In addition to key excerpts from each of my other
booksitcontainsseveralnewpersonalessayswhichprovide
introductions for mental health professionals to Loves
Executioner,WhenNietzscheWeptandLyingontheCouch.
AshortstoryabouttheHungarianHolocaust, Imcalling
thePolice,hasbeenpublishedasabookinseverallanguages
(German, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch). My most
recenthistoricalnovel,TheSpinozaProblem,isscheduledto
bepublishedinFebruary,2012.Mywife,Marilyn,received
a Ph. D. in comparative literature (French and German)
fromJohnsHopkinsandhashadahighlysuccessfulcareer
as a university professor and writer. Her many works
includeBloodSisters,AHistoryoftheBreast,Historyofthe
Wife,TheBirthofTheChessQueen and(togetherwithmy
son Reid Yalom) The American Resting Place. My four
children, all living in the San Francisco Bay area, have
chosen a variety of careersmedicine, photography,
creativewriting,theaterdirecting,clinicalpsychology.Five
grandchildrenandcounting.
CurriculumVitaeClickonatitle
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ProfessionalExperience
Books
Videos
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EditedWorks
Articles,Chapters
EDUCATIONGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,Washington,D.C.
BachelorofArts,1952
BostonUniversitySchoolofMedicine
DoctorofMedicine,1956
MountSinaiHospital,NewYork
Internship,1957
PhippsClinic,JohnsHopkinsHospital
Residency,1960
LICENSECERTIFICATIONLicensedtopracticemedicineinHawai
DiplomateAmericanBoardofPsychiatryandNeurology,CertifiedPsych
HONORSPrixDesLecteursforTheSpinozaProblem(FrenchTran
toReligionandPsychiatryTheAmericanPsychiatricAssociation2002
BestNovelof1992awardedSept,1993
FellowshipAward
RockefellerFoundation,Bellagio,Italy,1988
FellowshipAward
CenterforAdvancedStudyintheBehavioralSciences,PaloAlto,Califo
Foundation'sFundAwardforresearchinpsychiatry
AmericanPsychiatricAssociation,1976
EdwardStreckerAward
Forsignificantcontributiontothefieldofpsychiatrypatientcare,1974,p
PhiBetaKappa
1952
PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
1994present
EmeritusProfessorofPsychiatry
StanfordUniversitySchoolofMedicine
19841994
ConsultantInpatientandOutpatientUnits
StanfordUniversityMedicalCenter
19811984
MedicalDirector
StanfordUniversityHospitalPsychiatricInpatientUnit
19771978
Fellow
TheCenterforAdvancedStudyintheBehavioralSciences,PaloAlto,C
19731994
ProfessorofPsychiatry
StanfordUniversitySchoolofMedicine
19681973
AssociateProfessorofPsychiatry,withtenure
StanfordUniversitySchoolofMedicine
19731988
AssistantDirector
AdultPsychiatryClinic,StanfordUniversitySchoolofMedicine
19631968
AssistantProfessorofPsychiatry
StanfordUniversitySchoolofMedicine
19621963
InstructorinPsychiatry
StanfordUniversitySchoolofMedicine
19601962
Captain
U.S.ArmyTriplerGeneralHospital,Honolulu,Hawaii
19591960
Consultant
ThePatuxentInstitution,Jessup,Maryland
19571960
PsychiatricResidency
HenryPhippsClinic,JohnsHopkinsHospital,Baltimore,Maryland
19561957
RotatingInternship
MountSinaiHospital,NewYork,NewYork
BOOKS
Yalom,I.D.,TheTheoryandPracticeofGroupPsychotherapy.NewYo
Lieberman,M.A.,Yalom,I.D.,Miles,M.B.,EncounterGroups:FirstFa
Yalom,I.D.,Elkins,Ginny,EverydayGetsaLittleCloser.NewYork:Ba
Yalom,I.D.,TheTheoryandPracticeofGroupPsychotherapy.NewYo
Yalom,I.D.,ExistentialPsychotherapy.NewYork:BasicBooks,1980.
Yalom,I.D.,InpatientGroupPsychotherapy.NewYork:BasicBooks,1
Yalom,I.D.,TheTheoryandPracticeofGroupPsychotherapy,ThirdEd
Yalom,I.D.,Love'sExecutionerandOtherTalesofPsychotherapy.New
1990.
Yalom,I.D.,Vinogradov,S.,ConciseGuidetoGroupPsychotherapy.Am
Yalom,I.D.,WhenNietzscheWept.NewYork:BasicBooks/Harper,199
ofCaliforniaGoldMedalforbestfictionof1993.
Yalom,I.D.,TheTheoryandPracticeofGroupPsychotherapy,FourthE
Yalom,I.D.,LyingontheCouch,BasicBooks,1996,NewYork.
Yalom,I.D.,TheYalomReader,BasicBooks,1998,NewYork.
Yalom,I.D.,MommaandtheMeaningofLife,BasicBooks,1999,NewY
Yalom,I.D.,TheGiftofTherapy,HarperCollinsPublishers,2002,NewY
Yalom,I.D.,TheSchopenhauerCure,HarperCollinsPublishers,2005,N
Yalom,I.D.,TheTheoryandPracticeofGroupPsychotherapy,FifthEd
Yalom,I.D.,StaringattheSun,JosseyBass/Wiley,NewYork2008.
Yalom,I.D.,RobertBerger,I'mCallingthePolice,PublishedinGreece,
HungaryandUnitedStates(ebookonly)2009
Yalom,I.D.,TheSpinozaProblem,BasicBooks,2012,NewYork
Yalom,I.D.,CreaturesofaDay,BasicBooks,2015,NewYork
VIDEOTAPES
UnderstandingGrouptherapy.ThreeVolume,FiveTapeVideoSeries(V
groups;VolumeThreeinterview).BrooksColePublishingPacificG
Psychotherapy.net.
TheGiftofTherapy,anInterviewwithIrvinYalom,M.D.2002,Psycho
throughPsychotherapy.net
IrvinYalom:LiveCaseConsultation
2005,PsychotherapistResources.DistributedbyVictorYalomthrough
MONOGRAPHS
EncounterGroupsandPsychiatry,ReportoftheAmericanPsychiatric
UseofSmallGroups,Chairman,Washington,D.C.,AmericanPsychiatri
ExistentialFactorsinGroupTherapy,StreckerMonographSeries,No.
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Yalom,I.D.,(Ed)GroupPsychotherapyinAmericanPsychiatricAssoc
Inc.Washington,D.C.,1986.
Yalom,I.GeneralEditorforJossyBassLibraryofCurrentClinicalTech
TreatingtheElderly(J.Sheikh,ed.)
TreatingAlcoholism(S.Brown,ed.)
TreatingSchizophrenia(S.Vinogradov,ed.)
TreatingWomenMolestedinChildhood(C.Classen,ed.)
TreatingDepression(I.Glick,ed.)
TreatingEatingDisorders(J.Werne,ed.)
TreatingDissociativeIdentityDisorder(J.Spira,ed.)
TreatingCouples(H.Kessler,ed.)
TreatingAdolescents(H.Steiner,ed.)
TreatingAnxietyDisorders(T.Roth,ed.)
TreatingDifficultPersonalityDisorders(M.Rosenbluth,ed.)
TreatingSexualDisoders(R,Charlton,ed.)
TreatingPsychologicalConsequencesHIV(MichaelF.O'Connor,ed.)
ARTICLES,CHAPTERS
Yalom,I.,Lysergicaciddiethylamide,MarylandStateMedicalJourna
Yalom,I.,Aggressionandforbiddennessinvoyeurism,ArchivesofGe
Yalom,I.,Organicbraindiseasesofsenility,MarylandStateMedicalJ
Yalom,I.,GrouptherapyofIncarceratedSexualDeviants,JournalofN
Jackson,D.andYalom,I.,Familyhomeostasisandpatientchanges,Cu
Yalom,I.,Planterwarts:acasestudy,JournalofNerveandMentalDi
Yalom,I.,Observationonmourning,TheNewPhysician,13:8081,19
Yalom,I.andMoos,R.,Theuseofsmallinteractionalgroupsinthetea
Psychotherapy,15:242250,1965.
Jackson,D.andYalom,I.,Conjointfamilytherapyasanaidtointensiv
PsychotherapeuticPractice,PaloAlto,CA:ScienceandBehaviorBooks
Yalom,I.,Problemsofneophytegrouptherapists,InternationalJourna
Yalom,I.,Astudyofgrouptherapydropouts,ArchivesofGeneralPsy
Yalom,I.andHandlon,J.,Theuseofmultipletherapistsintheteaching
Disorders,141:684692,1966.
Moos,R.andYalom,I.,Medicalstudentsattitudestowardpsychiatryan
Yalom,I.andRand,K.,Compatibilityandcohesivenessintherapygrou
Jackson,D.andYalom,I.,Familyresearchontheproblemofulcerative
1966.
Yalom,I.,Someaspectsofsymptomremoval,ShortCircuit,1,1966.
Yalom,I.,Houts,P.,Zimerberg,S.,Rand,K.,Predictioninimprovemen
GeneralPsychiatry,17:159169,1967.
Yalom,I.,Houts,P.,Newell,G.,Rand,K.,Preparationofpatientsforgr
Psychiatry,17:416427,1967.
Hamburg,D.,Moos,R.,Yalom,I.,Studiesofpremenstrualandpostpart
HumanBehavior,NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,pp.94116,1968
Yalom,I.,Lunde,D.,Moos,R.,Hamburg,D.,Postpartumbluessyndrom
GeneralPsychiatry,18:1627,1968.
Yalom,I.andTerrazas,F.,Grouptherapyforpsychoticelderlypatients,
Ebersole,G.,Leiderman,P.,Yalom,I.,Trainingthenonprofessionalgr
MentalDisorders,149:294302,1969.
Moos,R.,Kopell,B.,Melges,F.,Yalom,I.,Lunde,D.,Clayton,R.,Ham
themenstrualcycle,JournalofPsychosomaticResearch,13:3744,196
Sklar,A.,Yalom,I.,Zimerberg,S.,Newell,G.,Timeextendedgroupth
November1970,373386.
Lieberman,M.,Yalom,I.,Miles,M.,Thegroupexperienceproject:aco
Gottsegen,G.Gottsegen(Eds.)Encounter,NewYork:TheMacMillanC
Yalom,I.andYalom,M.,Hemingway:APsychiatricView,Archiveso
Yalom,I.,Astudyofencountergroupcasualties,ArchivesofGeneral
Leiberman,M.,Yalom,I.,Miles,M.,Impactonparticipants,NewPers
JosseyBass,Inc.,pp.119170,1972.
Yalom,I.,Moffat,S.,Instantintimacy,EncyclopediaBrittannica,pp.4
1972,EncyclopediaBritannica,Inc.
Lieberman,M.,Yalom,I.,Miles,M.,Theimpactofencountergroupso
AppliedBehavioralSciences,8:1,1972.
Costell,Ronald,M.,Yalom,I.,Theinstitutionaltreatmentofsexoffend
SexualOffender,NewYork:Little,BrownandCo.,1972.
Yalom,I.,Thefutureofgrouptherapy,inHamburgandBrodie(Eds.)
BasicBooks,1973.
Yalom,I.,Green,R.,Fisk,N.,Intrauterinefemalehormoneexposurean
ofGeneralPsychiatry,Vol28,1973.
Yalom,I.,Freud,grouppsychologyandgrouppsychotherapy,Internat
January1974.
Yalom,I.,Grouptherapyandalcoholism,AnnalsoftheNewYorkAcad
Yalom,I.,Brown,S.,Bloch,S.,Thewrittensummaryasagrouppsycho
32:605613,1975.
Yalom,I.,Usingthehereandnowingrouptherapy,Proceedingsofth
Department,WashingtonSquareInstituteforPsychotherapyandMental
Bloch,S.,Bond,G.,Qualls,B.,Yalom,I.,Zimmerman,E.,Patientsexp
outcomes,AmericanJournalofPsychiatry,133:12,December1976,pp
Yalom,I.,Bond,G.,Bloch,S.,Zimmerman,E.,Friedmand,L.,Theimp
therapy,ArchivesofGeneralPsychiatry,Vol34,April1977,pp.39941
Yalom,I.,Existentialfactorsingrouppsychotherapy,inO.L.McCabe
andFutureDirections,Grune&Stratton,September1977.
Bloch,S.,Bond,G.,Qualls,B.,Yalom,I.,Zimmerman,E.,Theevaluati
newapproach,BritishJournalofPsychiatry,131:410414,1977.
Yalom,I.,Greaves,C.,Grouptherapywiththeterminallyill,American
Brown,S.,Yalom,I.,Interactionalgrouptherapywithalcoholics,Jour
Spiegel,D.,Yalom,I.,Asupportgroupfordyingpatients,Internationa
Yalom,I.,Bloch,S.,Bond,G.,Zimmerman,E.,Qualls,B.,Alcoholicsi
ArchivesofGeneralPsychiatry,35:419425,April1978.
Bond,G.,Bloch,S.,Yalom,I.,Zimmerman,E.,Qualls,B.,Theevaluati
measurement,Psychotherapy,Theory,ResearchandPractice,16:1,Spr
Spiegel,D.,Bloom,J.,Yalom,I.,Groupsupportformetastaticcancerp
ArchivesofGeneralPsychiatry,38:527534,May1981.
Finkelstein,P.,Wenegrat,B.,Yalom,I.,Largegroupawarenesstraining
May,R.,Yalom,I.,Existentialpsychotherapy,inR.Corsini(Ed.),Cu
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InternationalJournalofGroupPsychotherapy,Vol35,July1985.
Yalom,I.,Interpersonallearning,inAmericanPsychiatricAssociation
1986.
Yalom,I.D.,Vinogradov,S.,Bereavementgroups:techniquesandthem
October1988.
Yalom,I.,Vinogradov,S.,Selfdisclosureingrouptherapy,Selfdisclo
andM.Fisher,PlenumPress,N.Y.1990.
Yalom,I.D.,Yalom,V.,BriefInterractionalgrouppsychotherapy,Ann
Yalom,I.D.,Matano,R.,Chemicaldependencyandinteractionalgroup
Psychotherapy,July1991p269295
Yalom,I.D.,Lieberman,M.,Bereavementandheightenedexistentialaw
Lieberman,M.,Yalom,I.D.,Briefpsychotherapyforthespousallybere
GroupPsychotherapy,vol42,Jan1992.
Luby,J.,Yalom,I.D.,Grouptherapyofdepressivedisorders,E.S.Payk
Press,ChurchillLivingstone,June,1992.
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(eds)WashD.C.2nded.1994.
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