Having taken on the origins of psychotherapy in the popular When Nietzsche Wept, psychiatrist-novelist Yalom now turns to group therapy and the thinker sometimes known as the "philosopher of pessimism ...

The first person we meet in Irvin Yalom’s novel “The Schopenhauer Cure” is a 65-year-old San Francisco psychiatrist in seemingly good health who is shocked to learn that he has a fatal illness. As a ...

Irvin Yalom has experienced every kind of success imaginable within his field of expertise. The now-emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford was a leader in the development of group psychotherapy ...

"The Schopenhauer Cure" is really two books. The first, a biography of heavyweight German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), is woven into the second, a fictional account of group therapy.

If the future of psychotherapy lies in psychopharmaceuticals and the short-term therapies stipulated by HMOs, argues Yalom, then the profession is in trouble. Yalom, the recipient of both major awards ...