Table of Contents

Group Psychotherapy * The Therapeutic Factors: What It Is that Heals (with excerpts from The Theory and Group Psychotherapy) * Working in the Here and Now: Creating an Interactional Approach (with excerpts from The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy) * Working with Specialized Groups: Hospitalized Psychiatric Groups, the Terminally Ill, Alcoholics, and the Bereaved (with excerpts from Inpatient Group Psychotherapy) Existential Psychotherapy * The Four Ultimate Concerns: Death, Freedom, Isolation and Meaninglessness * Death, Anxiety, and Psychotherapy (with excerpts from Existential Psychotherapy) On Writing * Psychology Informing Literature: Literary Vignettes * Literature Informing Psychology: Ernest Hemingway: A Psychiatric View * The Journey from Psychotherapy to Literature (with Patient Vignettes from The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Every Day Gets a Little Closer and Loves Executioner) * The Teaching Novel (with excerpts from When Nietzsche Wept) * The Psychological Novel (with excerpts from Lying on the Couch)

About the Author

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundation's Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author of When Nietzsche Wept (winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction), Love's Executioner, Every Day Gets a Little Closer (with Ginny Elkin), and the classic textbooks Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy.