Author

Books by Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. He is the author of several major works in existential psychotherapy, including Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, as well as fiction including The Schopenhauer Cure and Lying on the Couch. When Nietzsche Wept, published in 1992, became his most widely read work and a bestseller in many countries. He is known for integrating serious philosophical inquiry into clinical practice and for writing accessibly about existential themes for general readers.