![]() ![]() ![]() 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. George Washington University, Boston UniversityĮpicurus, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Otto Rank, Rollo May ![]()
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