The confessions of Irvin Yalom

The confessions of Irvin Yalom

In 2020 Irvin Yalom, perhaps the world’s most famous psychotherapist, began an experiment that ran contrary to over a century of received wisdom in his field. Yalom was 89, but his services were still in demand among readers of his many works of fiction and nonfiction, which include some of the best books ever written about the “talking cure”. (His 1989 classic Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy birthed a new genre of storytelli…