Yalom’s Cure

Sabine Gisiger 2014

Novelist Irvin D. Yalom is considered to be the most influential psychotherapist in the USA. He made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existential psychotherapy.
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Running Time:

74 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Sabine Gisiger

Producers:

Philip Delaquis

Cinematographers:

Helena Vagnières, Matthias Günter, Tim Metzger

Editors:

Barbara Weber, Andreas Winterstein

Production Companies:

Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH

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Montreal Rampage

"Gisiger affords Dr. Yalom the opportunity to personally relate his experiences, thoughts, and insights at the center of his professional career and psychotherapy practice . provides viewers with valuable insight into the author's most successful works"
Cineeurope

"Yalom's cure has caused a ripple and the audience at Locarno gladly gave itself over to embark on an incredibly powerful mini human odyssey."
LA Times

"A fittingly meditative documentary portrait of psychotherapist-professor Irvin D. Yalom that offers a candid glimpse into the bestselling author's private life . the attractively photographed 'Yalom's Cure' dispenses an intricate fusion of the past and present that informs our own everyday existence."
filmjournal.com

"Intelligent ... feels like a particularly great, inspiriting therapy session."

Festival Participation

Festival del Film Locarno
Jewish International Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Sao Paulo International Film Festival

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