{"id":89633,"date":"2020-10-26T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?page_id=89633"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:52:44","slug":"irvin-yalom-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/offices-services\/alumni\/spotlight\/irvin-yalom-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Irvin Yalom, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Class Year<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2020\/09\/yalom__irvin-636x456.jpg\" alt=\"Irvin Yalom standing outside wearing a beige hat with decorative elements and a blue sweater.\" width=\"407\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignright wp-image-88790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2020\/09\/yalom__irvin-636x456.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2020\/09\/yalom__irvin-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2020\/09\/yalom__irvin.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/> 1956<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specialties<\/strong><br \/>\nPsychiatry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current practice\/Appointments<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Favorite Professors at BUSM:<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaac Asimov (biochemist and science fiction writer), Stanley Robbins (Pathology), and Dr. Malamud (Psychiatry)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Accomplishments:<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Received lifetime contributions awards from American Group Psychotherapy Association; Psychotherapy Networker, American Psychological Association; Strecker Prize from American Psychiatry Association<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Recent Publications:<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a relatively new book out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Becoming-Myself-Psychiatrists-Irvin-Yalom\/dp\/0465098894\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1524958879&amp;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Becoming Myself &#8211;\u00a0 A Psychiatrist&#8217;s Memoir&#8221;<\/a> (Basic Books, 2017). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0I\u2019ve written several others, including:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Becoming Myself\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creatures of a Day<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Spinoza Problem<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Existential Psychotherapy\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Nietzsche Wept\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Schopenhauer Cure\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staring at the Sun<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Other thoughts:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m now working on the 6th edition of my textbook, Theory and Practice of Group Therapy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Year 1956 Specialties Psychiatry Current practice\/Appointments Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University Favorite Professors at BUSM: Isaac Asimov (biochemist and science fiction writer), Stanley Robbins (Pathology), and Dr. Malamud (Psychiatry) Accomplishments: Received lifetime contributions awards from American Group Psychotherapy Association; Psychotherapy Networker, American Psychological Association; Strecker Prize from American Psychiatry Association Recent Publications: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15800,"featured_media":0,"parent":93581,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130806,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89633\/revisions\/130806"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=89633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}