アーヴィン・D・ヤーロム（1931年–）は、実存的精神療法と集団精神療法を専門とするアメリカの精神科医、作家。ワシントンDCで、ロシアから移住してきた両親のもとに生まれた。1956年にボストン大学で医学博士号を取得し、ジョンズ・ホプキンズ病院で精神科の研修を受けた後、スタンフォード大学で臨床と教育に携わった。同大学の精神医学名誉教授。患者一人ひとりの経験や、治療者と患者の関係を重視し、専門的な理論書に加えて、臨床の場で生じる問いを物語や小説としても書いてきた。『ヤーロム グループサイコセラピー――理論と実践』（原題 “The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy”）では、集団内の対人関係や治療を促す要因を具体例と研究から体系化した。同書はモーリン・レッシュとの共著による改訂を重ねた。『Existential Psychotherapy』（未邦訳）では、死、自由、孤立、無意味という四つの実存的な問題を軸に、哲学や文学、臨床経験を結びつけて精神療法を論じた。妻で仏文学者のマリリン・ヤーロムとの共著『死がふたりを分かつとき――精神科医と仏文学者、別れの記録』（原題 “A Matter of Death and Life”）では、がんを告げられたマリリンの提案から、病と死に向き合う日々を夫婦が交互に執筆した。妻の死後はヤーロムが一人で書き続け、長年の伴侶を失った悲嘆と、その後の生活を記録した。
Irvin D. Yalom (born 1931) is an American psychiatrist and writer specializing in existential and group psychotherapy. Born in Washington, D.C., to parents who had emigrated from Russia, he received his medical degree from Boston University in 1956 and completed psychiatric training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He subsequently developed his clinical and teaching career at Stanford University, where he is professor emeritus of psychiatry. His work has emphasized individual experience and the relationship between patient and therapist. Alongside professional texts, he has used clinical narratives and novels to explore questions arising in psychotherapy. “The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy” organized research and clinical examples around interpersonal relationships within groups and the factors that facilitate therapeutic change. Later editions were coauthored with Molyn Leszcz. In “Existential Psychotherapy,” he brought clinical experience into dialogue with philosophy and literature, organizing the field around four central concerns: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. “A Matter of Death and Life,” written with his wife, the scholar of French literature Marilyn Yalom, began after her cancer diagnosis. At her suggestion, they wrote alternating chapters about illness, mortality, and their life together. After Marilyn’s death, he continued the book alone, documenting his grief and the practical and emotional changes involved in living without his lifelong companion.
