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Irvin D. Yalom

Forfatterbiografi

Irvin D. Yalom blev født i Washington, D.C. den 13. juni 1931 og er amerikansk psykiater og forfatter. Han har virket som kliniker og forsker i skæringsfeltet mellem psykoterapi og eksistentielle temaer og er kendt for at omsætte sine behandlingserfaringer til både faglitteratur og fortællende tekster. Som skribent bevæger han sig især inden for genrerne psykologisk og psykiatrisk sagprosa samt roman- og novelleprægede værker, hvor relationen mellem terapeut og klient og menneskets vilkår træder frem. Blandt hans mest kendte bøger er The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, der har haft stor indflydelse på forståelsen af gruppeterapi, samt skønlitterære og eksistentielt orienterede udgivelser som When Nietzsche Wept og Love’s Executioner. I The Yalom Reader samles udvalgte bidrag, der viser spændvidden i hans skrivestil fra professionelle refleksioner til narrative fortællinger. Yalom har også modtaget anerkendelser for sit arbejde; på hans officielle hjemmeside fremgår blandt andet Oscar Pfister Award for bidrag til religion og psykiatri. Hans betydning for litteraturen ligger i, at han med en letlæst, fortællende form gør psykologiske og filosofiske spørgsmål umiddelbart nærværende for et bredere publikum.

Bøger af Irvin D. Yalom

'Love's Executioner'
'Love's Executioner'

Bog | Engelsk

Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us all Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm

'Da Nietzsche græd'
'Da Nietzsche græd'

Lydbog | Dansk

"Stærk og overbevisende. Overraskelsens element er et magisk og rystende øjeblik." Washington Post Book World Wien 1882 året før Richard Wagners død. Den berømte læge Josef Breuer, en af psykoanalysens grundlæggere, er på højdepunktet af sin k

'Kærlighedens bøddel'
'Kærlighedens bøddel'

Lydbog | Dansk

Et brag af en bog, der i sin skønhed, sit mod og sin professionelle og menneskelige dybde er enestående i den psykoterapeutiske litteratur. Politiken Den anerkendte og populære psykoterapeut Irvin D. Yalom fortæller med indsigt og indlevelse historier om

'Staring at the Sun'
'Staring at the Sun'

Bog | Engelsk

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recogn

'Creatures of a Day'
'Creatures of a Day'

Bog | Engelsk

In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles--as well as his own--to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life yet reckon with its inevitab

'Becoming Myself'
'Becoming Myself'

Bog | Engelsk

'I was born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after the first world war. Home was the inner city of Washington - a small apartment atop my parents' grocery store on First and Seaton Street. During my c

'The Spinoza Problem'
'The Spinoza Problem'

Bog | Engelsk

A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophic

'Lying on the Couch'
'Lying on the Couch'

Bog | Engelsk

From the bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual

'Love's Executioner'
'Love's Executioner'

Bog | Engelsk

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humour at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and

'Momma and the Meaning of Life'
'Momma and the Meaning of Life'

Bog | Engelsk

Bestselling author of Love's Executioner and The Gift of Therapy, psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful collection. In six enthralling stories drawn from his o

'Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir'
'Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir'

Bog | Engelsk

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoir Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. H

'The Yalom Reader'
'The Yalom Reader'

Bog | Engelsk

In both his nonfiction and his fiction, Yalom uses the lens of psychotherapy to explore human nature and shows us that the line between the true and the imagined is not always easy to distinguish. What has driven Dr. Yalom from the beginning of his career