EDUCATION George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Bachelor of Arts, 1952 Boston University School of Medicine Doctor of Medicine, 1956 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Internship, 1957 Phipps Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital Residency, 1960
LICENSE CERTIFICATION Licensed to practice medicine in Hawaii and California (G6165) Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified Psychiatry, 1964
HONORS Oscar Pfister Award for contributions to Religion and Psychiatry The American Psychiatric Association - 2002 Commonwealth Club Gold Medal Award for fiction Best Novel of 1992 - awarded Sept, 1993 Fellowship Award Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 1988 Fellowship Award Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1977 Foundation's Fund Award for research in psychiatry American Psychiatric Association, 1976 Edward Strecker Award For significant contribution to the field of psychiatry patient care, 1974, presented by the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital Phi Beta Kappa 1952
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1994-present Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine 1984-1994 Consultant Inpatient and Outpatient Units Stanford University Medical Center 1981-1984 Medical Director Stanford University Hospital Psychiatric Inpatient Unit 1977-1978 Fellow The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California 1973-1994 Professor of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine 1968-1973 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, with tenure Stanford University School of Medicine 1973-1988 Assistant Director Adult Psychiatry Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine 1963-1968 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, with tenure Stanford University School of Medicine 1962-1963 Instructor in Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine 1960-1962 Captain U.S. Army Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii 1959-1960 Consultant The Patuxent Institution, Jessup, Maryland 1957-1960 Psychiatric Residency Henry Phipps Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 1956-1957 Rotating Internship Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York
BOOKS Yalom, I.D., The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books, 1970.
Lieberman, M.A., Yalom, I.D., Miles, M.B., Encounter Groups: First Facts. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Yalom, I.D., Elkins, Ginny, Everyday Gets a Little Closer. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
Yalom, I.D., The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. New York: Second edition, Basic Books, 1975.
Yalom, I.D., Existential Psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books, 1980.
Yalom, I.D., Inpatient Group Psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Yalom, I.D., The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Third Edition. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Yalom, I.D., Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books, 1989. Paperback Harper Collins, 1990.
Yalom, I.D., Vinogradov, S., Concise Guide to Group Psychotherapy. American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Washington, D.C., 1989.
Yalom, I.D., When Nietzsche Wept. New York: Basic Books/Harper, 1991. Paperback: arper Collins, 1992 (Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for best fiction of 1993.
Yalom, I.D., The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fourth Edition, 1995. New York: Basic Books.
Yalom, I.D., Lying on the Couch, Basic Books, 1996, New York.
Yalom, I.D., The Yalom Reader, Basic Books, 1998, New York.
Yalom, I.D., Momma and the Meaning of Life, Basic Books, 1999, New York.
Yalom, I.D., The Gift of Therapy, HarperCollins Publishers, 2002, New York.
Yalom, I.D., The Schopenhauer Cure, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, New York.
Yalom, I.D., The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition, Basic Books, May, 2005, New York.
VIDEO TAPES
Understanding Group therapy. Three Volume, Five Tape Videotape Series (Volume One—outpatient groups; Volume Two—inpatient groups; Volume Three—interview). Brooks Cole Publishing Pacific Grove, Ca. Distributed by Victor Yalom through Psychotherapy.net.
“Encounter Groups and Psychiatry,” Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Recent Developments in the Use of Small Groups, Chairman, Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Association, April, 1970.
“Existential Factors in Group Therapy,” Strecker Monograph Series, No. XI, 1974.
EDITED WORKS
Yalom, I.D., (Ed) “Group Psychotherapy” in American Psychiatric Association Annual Review, Vol 5. American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Washington, D.C., 1986.
Yalom, I. General Editor for Jossy Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique. Thirteen volumes: 1996 - 1998.
Treating the Elderly (J. Sheikh, ed.)
Treating Alcoholism (S. Brown, ed.)
Treating Schizophrenia (S. Vinogradov, ed.)
Treating Women Molested in Childhood (C. Classen, ed.)
Treating Psychological Consequences HIV (Michael F. O'Connor, ed.)
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS
Yalom, I., “Lysergic acid diethylamide,” Maryland State Medical Journal, 8:14-17, 1959. Yalom, I., “Aggression and forbiddenness in voyeurism,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 3:305-319, 1960. Yalom, I., “Organic brain diseases of senility,” Maryland State Medical Journal, December, 1960. Yalom, I., “Group therapy of Incarcerated Sexual Deviants,” Journal of Nerve and Mental Disorders, 132:158-170, 1961. Jackson, D. and Yalom, I., “Family homeostasis and patient changes,” Current Psychiatric Therapies, IV:155-165, 1964. Yalom, I., “Planter warts: a case study,” Journal of Nerve and Mental Disorders, 1964. Yalom, I., “Observation on mourning,” The New Physician, 13:80-81, 1964. Yalom, I. and Moos, R., “The use of small interactional groups in the teaching of psychiatry,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 15:242-250, 1965. Jackson, D. and Yalom, I., “Conjoint family therapy as an aid to intensive psychotherapy,” in Burton, A. (Ed.) Modern Psychotherapeutic Practice, Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books, Inc., pp. 81-99, 1965. Yalom, I., “Problems of neophyte group therapists,” International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 7:52-59, 1966. Yalom, I., “A study of group therapy dropouts,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 14:393-414, 1966. Yalom, I. and Handlon, J., “The use of multiple therapists in the teaching of psychiatric residents,” Journal of Nerve and Mental Disorders, 141:684-692, 1966. Moos, R. and Yalom, I., “Medical students attitudes toward psychiatry and psychiatrists,” Mental Hygiene, 50:246-256, 1966. Yalom, I. and Rand, K., “Compatibility and cohesiveness in therapy groups,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 15:267-275, 1966. Jackson, D. and Yalom, I., “Family research on the problem of ulcerative colitis,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 15:410-418, 1966. Yalom, I., “Some aspects of symptom removal,” Short Circuit, 1, 1966. Yalom, I., Houts, P., Zimerberg, S., Rand, K., “Prediction in improvement in group therapy: an exploratory study,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 17:159-169, 1967. Yalom, I., Houts, P., Newell, G., Rand, K., “Preparation of patients for group therapy: a controlled study,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 17:416-427, 1967. Hamburg, D., Moos, R., Yalom, I., “Studies of premenstrual and postpartum distress,” in Michael, R. (Ed.) Endocrinology and Human Behavior, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 94-116, 1968. Yalom, I., Lunde, D., Moos, R., Hamburg, D., “Postpartum blues syndrome: a description and related variables,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 18:16-27, 1968. Yalom, I. and Terrazas, F., “Group therapy for psychotic elderly patients,” American Journal of Nursing, August 1968, 1960-1964. Ebersole, G., Leiderman, P., Yalom, I., “Training the non-professional group therapist: a controlled study,” Journal of Nervous Mental Disorders, 149:294-302, 1969. Moos, R., Kopell, B., Melges, F., Yalom, I., Lunde, D., Clayton, R., Hamburg, D., “Fluctuations in symptoms and moods during the menstrual cycle,” Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 13:37-44, 1969. Sklar, A., Yalom, I., Zimerberg, S., Newell, G., “Time-extended group therapy: a controlled study,” Comparative Group Studies, November 1970, 373-386. Lieberman, M., Yalom, I., Miles, M., “The group experience project: a comparison of ten encounter technologies,” in L. Blank, M. Gottsegen, G. Gottsegen (Eds.) Encounter, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1971. Yalom, I. and Yalom, M., Hemingway: “A Psychiatric View,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 24:485-494, 1971. Yalom, I., “A study of encounter group casualties,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 25:16-30, 1971. Leiberman, M., Yalom, I., Miles, M., “Impact on participants,” New Perspectives on Encounter Groups, Solomon and Berzon, Jossey-Bass, Inc., pp. 119-170, 1972. Yalom, I., Moffat, S., “Instant intimacy,” Encyclopedia Brittannica, pp. 408-423, Brittannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, 1972, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Lieberman, M., Yalom, I., Miles, M., “The impact of encounter groups on participants: some preliminary findings,” The Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences, 8:1, 1972. Costell, Ronald, M., Yalom, I., “The institutional treatment of sex offenders,” in Resnik and Wolfgang (Eds.) Treatment of the Sexual Offender, New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1972. Yalom, I., “The future of group therapy,” in Hamburg and Brodie (Eds.) The American Handbook of Psychiatry, Vol 6, New York: Basic Books, 1973. Yalom, I., Green, R., Fisk, N., “Intrauterine female hormone exposure and psychosexual development in human males,” Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol 28, 1973. Yalom, I., “Freud, group psychology and group psychotherapy,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol XXIV, No. 1, January 1974. Yalom, I., “Group therapy and alcoholism,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 233:85-103, 1974. Yalom, I., Brown, S., Bloch, S., “The written summary as a group psychotherapy technique,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 32:605-613, 1975. Yalom, I., “Using the here-and-now in group therapy,” Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Group Therapy Department, Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, May 1976. Bloch, S., Bond, G., Qualls, B., Yalom, I., Zimmerman, E., “Patients expectations of therapeutic improvement and their outcomes,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 133:12, December 1976, pp. 1457-1460. Yalom, I., Bond, G., Bloch, S., Zimmerman, E., Friedmand, L., “The impact of a weekend group experience on individual therapy,” Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol 34, April 1977, pp. 399-415. Yalom, I., “Existential factors in group psychotherapy,” in O. L. McCabe (Ed.) Changing Human Behavior: Current Therapies and Future Directions, Grune & Stratton, September 1977. Bloch, S., Bond, G., Qualls, B., Yalom, I., Zimmerman, E., “The evaluation of outcome in psychotherapy by independent judges: a new approach,” British Journal of Psychiatry, 131:410-414, 1977. Yalom, I., Greaves, C., “Group therapy with the terminally ill,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 134:4, April 1977, pp. 396-400. Brown, S., Yalom, I., “Interactional group therapy with alcoholics,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 38:3, March 1977, pp. 426-456. Spiegel, D., Yalom, I., “A support group for dying patients,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 28:2, April 1978. Yalom, I., Bloch, S., Bond, G., Zimmerman, E., Qualls, B., “Alcoholics in interactional group therapy: an outcome study,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 35:419-425, April 1978. Bond, G., Bloch, S., Yalom, I., Zimmerman, E., Qualls, B., “The evaluation of a ‘Target problem’ approach to outcome measurement,” Psychotherapy, Theory, Research and Practice, 16:1, Spring 1979. Spiegel, D., Bloom, J., Yalom, I., “Group support for metastatic cancer patients: a randomized prospective outcome study,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 38:527-534, May 1981. Finkelstein, P., Wenegrat, B., Yalom, I., “Large group awareness training,” in Annual Review of Psychology, 33:515-539, 1982. May, R., Yalom, I., “Existential psychotherapy,” in R. Corsini (Ed.),” Current Psychotherapies, Third edition, 1985. Leszcz, M., Yalom, I., Norden, M., “The value of inpatient group psychotherapy and therapeutic process: patients perceptions,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol 35, July 1985. Yalom, I., “Interpersonal learning,” in American Psychiatric Association Annual Review: Vol V American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1986. Yalom, I.D., Vinogradov, S., “Bereavement groups: techniques and themes,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 38:4, October 1988. Yalom, I., Vinogradov, S., “Self-disclosure in group therapy,” Self-disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship ed. by G. Stricker and M. Fisher, Plenum Press, N.Y. 1990. Yalom, I.D., Yalom, V., “Brief Interractional group psychotherapy,” Annals of Psychiatry, 1990 Yalom, I.D., Matano, R., “Chemical dependency and interactional group therapy: a synthesis,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, July 1991 p269-295 Yalom, I.D., Lieberman, M., “Bereavement and heightened existential awareness,” Psychiatry 1992. Lieberman, M., Yalom, I.D., “Brief psychotherapy for the spousally bereaved: A Controlled Study,” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, vol 42, Jan 1992. Luby, J., Yalom, I.D., “Group therapy of depressive disorders,” E.S. Paykel (Ed.) Handbook of Affective Disorders:2E, Guilford Press, Churchill-Livingstone, June, 1992. Yalom, I., Vinogradov, S., “Group therapy,” in Textbook of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Press, (Hales, Yudofsky, Talbot (eds) Wash D.C. 2nd ed. 1994. Rogers, Carl, A Way of Being, Houghton Mifflin (1995), Introduction by Irvin D. Yalom. Yalom, I., Vinogradov, S., “Group therapy,” in Synopsis of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Press, Wash. D.C. 1996 page 1063-1097. Rabinowitz, Ilana, Inside Therapy, St. Martins Press (1998), Introduction by Irvin D. Yalom. Breuer, Josef and Freud, Sigmund, Studies in Hysteria, Basic Books (2000), Introduction by Irvin D. Yalom.
