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Jewish-American psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author.
Yalom, who has the title of professor, retired from Stanford University, has a very rich structure in his field and is the owner of scientific books and novels. Yalom is one of the most important living representatives of existential psychotherapy. He is also the winner of the International Sigmund Freud – Psychotherapy award 2009.
Born in Washington, DC, Yalom's family, of Jewish origin, immigrated to the United States from Celtz, a Russian town near the Polish border, shortly after the end of World War I.
The person Yalom, who is considered one of the most influential psychoanalysts in the USA, considered as his mentor was Jerome D. Frank. While Yalom pioneered the development of psychoanalysis, which is constantly criticized among psychoanalysts, and at the same time provided a new and better understanding of human psychological disorders with his long but impressive new rehabilitation methods in psychoanalysis, the novels he wrote, full of content specific to the methods he applied, helped him gain a place in the world of literature.
Irvin David Yalom is married to social scientist and author Marily Yalom. They had four children from this marriage. He lives in Palo Alto, California. The general metaphor he uses in his writings is psychoanalytic and is intertwined with philosophy. Although the existential method he applied in group therapies is a classical method, Yalom continued it with much more productive findings that prevented it from being deformed in today's psychoanalysis.