Yalom's Cure

The documentary tells the life and work of Irvin D. Yalom. He is an American psychiatrist. He worked in the field of existential therapy. His books reached a wide readership. The film moves through what he says himself. Yalom reflects on the meaning of life. He discusses how a full life is built. He says we cannot understand another without understanding ourselves. He returns to the ideas of freedom and of meaning. He describes his early work as well. He speaks of what he did with cancer patients. That work taught him to accept mortality. His wife Marilyn Yalom speaks too. Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom speak in the seventy seven minute documentary. It is a French, Swiss and American co-production Sabine Gisiger finished in 2014.