I am writing this as a follow-up to my last post, “What Is Your COVID-19 Story?” At the end of that post, as with many of my posts, I advocated a more mindful approach to the pandemic, culminating in ...

Existential therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people find a sense of meaning in their lives. It is less rigidly structured than other types of therapy and focuses on exploring a ...

In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu writes, “When the government is laid back / The people are relaxed. When the government is nitpicking / The people are anxious.” The Tao Te Ching aimed to help humans ...

How are we supposed to grapple with the knowledge that soon we will be nothing? How do we live a meaningful life with the always-looming threat of death? That’s what Dr. Irvin Yalom of Stanford ...

This cinematic feature documentary is more than a classic biography. Yalom takes the audience on an existential journey through the many layers of the human mind while he shares his fundamental ...

The proverb “physician, heal thyself” comes to mind while watching “Yalom’s Cure,” a fittingly meditative documentary portrait of psychotherapist-professor Irvin D. Yalom that offers a candid glimpse ...