Irvin Yalom books

American psychiatrist and professor emeritus at Stanford. He wrote the standard textbook of group psychotherapy, the main book of existential psychotherapy and novels about therapy.

Where to start

Start with The Gift of Therapy: 85 short chapters you can read in any order. If you run groups, you need The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. Existential Psychotherapy is the theory, and Love's Executioner shows it in stories of clients.

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Store links go through sessio.health/go/: an English edition opens on Amazon.com, other editions in the store of their language. The book descriptions are written by the Sessio team.