On being a modern therapist: Interview with Victor Yalom

Authors

  • Beatrice Popescu

Abstract

Victor Yalom, PhD is the founder and president of psychotherapy.net, an online psychotherapy magazine targeted to trainee therapists and practitioners of all psychotherapeutic approaches. Victor is also a practicing psychologist, talented couple therapist, and business consultant in San Francisco. In his spare time, he expresses his unique vision in cartoons and wonderful abstract landscape paintings. Son of one of the most influential existential psychotherapists, Irvin Yalom, Victor talks to Europe’s Journal of Psychology about his current work and the most inspirational figures in the psychotherapy world he has been fortunate enough to meet and interview during his career.