Hour of the Heart

“Yalom’s success as a therapist comes from his fierce self-examination and fine attunement to his emotions. He has spent his life charting the depths of his own soul so that he may understand others better. Hour of the Heart demystifies the psychiatrist as some preternatural telepathist to a person who is fallibly human but has turned a metaphysical x-ray on themselves. The book has an interesting effect on the reader, inducing a kind of mindfulness a real-life therapy session may provide.” - Arts Hub (AU)

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is a world-renowned psychiatrist, visionary therapist, and internationally bestselling author. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Love’s Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, When Nietzsche Wept, The Schopenhauer Cure, and most recently A Matter of Death and Life, a dual memoir written with his late wife, Marilyn Yalom, PhD.

His textbooks Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Existential Therapy are standards for therapists in training worldwide. In 2014, he was the subject of the documentary Yalom’s Cure. Now in his nineties, Dr. Yalom continues to live and write in Northern California.

Benjamin Yalom

Benjamin Yalom is a San Diego-based psychotherapist with an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, focusing on values, relationships, and existential concerns. He is a long-time writing collaborator with his father, Irvin D. Yalom. Prior to his doctoral studies in Marriage and Family Therapy, Ben was the visionary force behind foolsFURY theater, which helped transform San Francisco’s performing arts scene in the early 2000s. He is also an award-winning fiction writer.

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