Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin David Yalom (b. June 13, 1931 in Washington DC), M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist psychotherapist, and an author of fiction and nonfiction. Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, of parents who came to the US from Russia, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as 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...