Irvin D. Yalom, M.D. , is one of the world's foremost psychiatrists, a visionary therapist and internationally best-selling author. His textbooks Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Existential Therapy remain standards for therapists in training worldwide, as does The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients .His masterful books of stories and reflections include the New York Times best-seller Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Creatures of a Day, and Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death. His teaching novels include When Nietzsche Wept, The Schopenhauer Cure, Lying on the Couch, and The Spinoza Problem, and have been best sellers in multiple countries.His most recent book, written with his late wife, Marilyn Yalom, Ph.

D., A Matter of Death and Life , is a dual first-person memoir that chronicles Marilyn's struggle with cancer, their jointly grappling with her impending death after a life-time spent together, and Irv's response as husband and therapist to her illness and death. An excellent documentary film about Dr. Yalom's work and life, Yalom's Cure, was released in 2014.Now in his nineties, Dr. Yalom continues to live and write in Palo Alto, California. www.yalom.

com.