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Irvin Yalom
Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.
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culture · American existential psychiatrist (born 1931) · writer · psychologist · university teacher · psychiatrist · existential therapist · psychotherapist · psychoanalyst · also Irvin Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom, Yalom
Born 13 June 1931 · Q362721
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2024· 1 entry
Married Sakino Sternberg, a clinical psychologist in Berlin
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2019· 1 entry
He was married to author and historian Marilyn Yalom, who died on November 20, 2019.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Sigmund Freud Award (2009).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Oskar Pfister Award (2001).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Strecker Award (1974).
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1970· 2 entries
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy ISBN 0-465-09284-5 (6th edition 2020)
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Yalom published The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, speaking about the research literature around group psychotherapy and the social psychology of small group behavior
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1963· 1 entry
And promoted over the following years, being granted tenure in 1968
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1952· 1 entry
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 Ba
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-06-13.
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