Irvin D. Yalom, MD , 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 Foundations' 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 , a memoir; Becoming Myself , a group therapy novel; The Schopenhauer Cure ; and the classic textbooks Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy , among many other books. He lives in Palo Alto, California. Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA , is professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is an award-winning clinical educator. Dr.

Leszcz is the president of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and a distinguished fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He is the coauthor of Psychotherapy Essentials to Go: Achieving Psychotherapy Effectiveness . He lives in Toronto, Canada.