News Release

CHAPEL HILL -- Renowned psychotherapist and author Dr. Irvin Yalom will give the Carroll Butts Heins Endowed Lecture sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work on April 9.

The lecture is scheduled for 10 a.m. at UNC’s William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education and will conclude the school’s spring clinical lecture series. The title of Yalom’s speech is "The Art of Psychotherapy: Lessons Gleaned from My Career as an Individual and Group Therapist." A book signing will follow the lecture.

Limited seating is available for the public. Tickets are $30 for the public and $10 for students. Doors open at 9 a.m. Checks and credit card payments will be accepted.

Yalom, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University, is the author of more than a dozen books focusing on such topics as therapist training and group psychotherapy. For more than three decades, Yalom has been the primary spokesman and teacher of group therapy. His book "The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy" is considered a leading text for training therapists. His most recent novel, "The Schopenhauer Cure," is a fictional account of group psychotherapy.

"I consider Dr. Yalom the most significant psychotherapist working today," said Dr. Deborah Barrett, event organizer and clinical assistant professor at the School of Social Work.

The Carroll Butts Heins Endowment for Psychodynamic Education was established in 1991 to support instruction, research and curriculum needs in the area of mental health. Carroll Butts Heins is a 1962 graduate of the School of Social Work and currently serves on the school’s board of advisers.

During the spring semester, the clinical lecture series has offered monthly lectures by innovative practitioners to enhance the clinical curriculum for students and provide continuing education for alumni and practitioners. More information on the series is available at http://ssw.unc.edu/jif/cls/.

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Note: Contact Yalom at (650) 493-1751 or idy@stanford.edu. For more information on him, visit http://www.yalom.com.

School of Social Work contact: Krystie Grubb, (919) 962-6540 or kgrubb@email.unc.edu

News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu