Irvin Yalom and His Four Existential Concerns

One of the most important figures in the field of existential psychotherapy is psychiatry and psychotherapist teacher, Irvin Yalom. In fact, he’s written many essays and novels. Among them are The Spinoza Problem and When Nietzsche Wept. Yalom usually manages to quite subtly include in his works his four existential concerns of humans. These are death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. Irvin Yalom and existential psychotherapy It’s difficult to define existential psychotherapy. To do it, you need to take a philosophical approach. An approach that considers the difficulties of people as agents in the process of evolution and change. People are…