Irvin D. Yalom
"If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic."
Irvin D. Yalom is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine.
The author of two definitive psychotherapy textbooks, Dr Yalom has written several books for the general reader, including Momma and the Meaning of Life and Love’s Executioner, collections of true and fictionalised tales of therapy; Staring at the Sun; and the novels When Nietzsche Wept; The Schopenhauer Cure, and The Spinoza Problem. Dr Yalom has an active but part-time private practice in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California.