AGPA Connect 2015 Conference Opening Plenary Address featuring Dr. Irvin Yalom: "My Advice to Early Career Group Therapists and Reminders for those with More Experience on How Learning Never Ends"

This presentation will cover insights and understandings that Dr. Yalom has acquired through his years as a group therapist and discussion concerning where he believes the field of group therapy is headed.

Dr. Irvin Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of several highly acclaimed textbooks, including Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. He is also the author of stories and novels related to psychotherapy, including Love’s Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, and The Schopenhauer Cure. His latest non-fiction book is Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.