I Shrink, Therefore I Am

The Washington Post;  October 1, 1999 ;   Carolyn See;   787 words ......LIFE Tales of Psychotherapy By Irvin D. Yalom Basic Books. 247 pp. $24 This is a collection...memoirs--both fiction and nonfiction. Irvin Yalom, author of "Love's Executioner," has put...throughout by the author's charming voice. Yalom's first chapter deals with his mother...

The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel.(Book review)

Adultspan Journal;  September 22, 2006 ;   Alleyne, Vanessa;   787 words ...Irvin D. Yalom. The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel. (2005...In the ensuing reverie, Julius Hertzfeld, Yalom's thinly veiled fictional counterpart, a...third main character of the novel. Thus, Yalom begins to weave the tapestry of this tale...

WISE INSIGHTS, ENGAGING ADVICE ARE ONE PSYCHIATRIST'S `GIFT'

The Boston Globe;  February 18, 2002 ;   Michael Rosenwald, Globe Staff;   782 words ......Therapy," legendary psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom has written an absorbing guide to his couchside...it was different. I was on Page 188 of Yalom's book when that memory was jarred loose...as I accompany a patient to the door," Yalom writes, adding, "If a patient asks during...

Thanks for Sharing

The Washington Post;  January 23, 2005 ;   Reviewed by Judith Viorst;   774 words ...THE SCHOPENHAUER CURE By Irvin D. Yalom. HarperCollins. 358 pp. $24.95 Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom has explored, in previous books, the science...all of whom in some way had to confront what Yalom called the givens of existence: the inevitability...

From property to partner; 'A History of the Wife' explores changing role...

The Boston Herald;  March 2, 2001 ;   Schorow, Stephanie;   528 words ...Historian Marilyn Yalom has forged a career out of explorations...emerged from research for the Breast book, Yalom said in a phone interview from her Palo...problematic nature of marriage in our time, said Yalom, 68, who has been married for 46 years...

When Wrong Looks Like Right

The Washington Post;  September 8, 1996 ;   M.J. McAteer;   741 words ...LYING ON THE COUCH By Irving D. Yalom Basic Books. 369 pp. $25 "THE LIFE which...Plato could read psychiatrist Irving D. Yalom's novel Lying on the Couch and see how...poster boy for mental health himself. As Yalom's choice of the character's name implies...

A History of the Breast.

The Women's Review of Books;  June 1, 1997 ;   Schiebinger, Londa;   787 words ......what they saw as the voyeurism of Marilyn Yalom's enterprise. It seems to me, however...multivalent objects of history. Marilyn Yalom, writer and senior scholar at the Institute...action in times of war and revolution. For Yalom, the breast serves a weather-vane indicating...

Interview: Marilyn Yalom discusses how societal changes over the past...

All Things Considered (NPR);  May 27, 2004 ;   ROBERT SIEGEL;   728 words ......Considered (NPR) 05-27-2004 Interview: Marilyn Yalom discusses how societal changes over the...chessboard. And as cultural historian Marilyn Yalom recounts in her new book, the queen is...centuries over the last millennium. Marilyn Yalom's book is called "Birth of the Chess Queen...

Response to Irvin Yalom

American Journal of Psychotherapy;  January 1, 2002 ;   Karasu, T Bryam;   787 words ......Psychiatry and Religion for its selection of Dr. Yalom to be the recipient of this award-not for...argument negating God's existence, Dr. Yalom glanced up at us and said, I quote, "Divine...that we have firmly established that Dr. Yalom is a believer, let me move on to the content...

JOINING PATIENTS ON THE ROAD TO AWARENESS

The Boston Globe;  September 22, 1989 ;   Christina Robb, Globe Staff;   787 words ......Tales of Psychotherapy, by Irwin D. Yalom. Basic Books. 270 pp. $19.95. As it is practiced by therapists like Irwin Yalom and Alfred Margulies, psychotherapy...as human beings. Will is crucial to Yalom, an existential psychiatrist who teaches...

Multifunctional Couch

Jerusalem Post;  January 9, 1998 ;   Leslie Cohen;   615 words ......01-09-1998 LYING ON THE COUCH by Irvin Yalom. New York, HarperPerennial. 369 pp. $13...former bestseller, When Nietzsche Wept, Yalom explored psychologist Breuer's sexual obsession...session, twice a week, for eight years!" Yalom is courageous to tackle an issue this embarrassing...

SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVESAUTHOR ON WOMEN'S ISSUES TAKES A LOOK AT...

The Boston Globe;  July 5, 2004 ;   David Mehegan, Globe Staff;   787 words ......is chess, and cultural historian Marilyn Yalom set out with her new book, "Birth of the...replaced the king as the center of power? Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for...14th century, depicts a nursing madonna. Yalom was fascinated. Could it be a chess piece...

Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory.

The Women's Review of Books;  February 1, 1994 ;   Walton, Whitney;   787 words ...MARILYN YALOM'S BOOK, originally published in French as...power. Quoting extensively from the memoirs, Yalom constructs a largely negative story of the...and after the upheaval. Mainly, however, Yalom uses excerpts from the memoirs to narrate...

Here Today . . .; Two ways of thinking about dying.

The Washington Post;  February 24, 2008 ;     787 words ......Overcoming the Terror of Death By Irvin D. Yalom Jossey-Bass. 306 pp. $24.95 THE THING ABOUT...epigrammatical Frenchman wrong; Irvin D. Yalom and David Shields have stared deliberately...contrasting approaches illuminate each other. Yalom, a practicing psychiatrist, is the author...

Preparation for counseling adults with terminal illness: personal and...

Counseling and Values;  April 1, 2006 ;   Manis, Amie A. Bodenhorn, Nancy;   787 words ......to be feared and a cause for mourning. Yalom (1998), an existential psychotherapist...writings on death anxiety, or fear of death. Yalom identified death anxiety as a universal...death awareness (Garrow & Walker, 2001; Yalom, 1998). It is worthy of mention that Yalom...