Existential therapy Books
Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy
This contemporary introduction provides a comprehensive survey of past and present existential ideas, philosophers and practice. Darren Langdridge makes existential therapy accessible through clear... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Coaching
Existential philosophies are concerned with reflecting on life and the human condition, helping us to think critically and creatively about the challenges of our lives and how best to meet them. This... (more)
Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue
In 1958 in their book Existence, Rollo May, Henri Ellenberger and Ernst Angel introduced existential therapy to the English-speaking psychotherapy world. Since then the field of existential therapy... (more)
Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960
Based on a wealth of previously unexamined archives relating to his private papers and clinical notes, Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man explores one of the most famous and controversial... (more)
Post-existentialism and the Psychological Therapies: Towards a Therapy without Foundations
A valuable contribution to the field by a professor of psychotherapy and author and editor of many titles in this area. (more)
Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Supervision: Widening the Horizon of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Supervision is an essential part of counselling and psychotherapy practice. It is increasingly recognised as a tool for ensuring high professional standards. In an era of regulation and tightening... (more)
Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This book provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy. Presenting a philosophical alternative to other forms of psychological treatment, it emphasises the problems of living and... (more)
Existential Psychotherapy of Meaning: Handbook of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
This major new work allows readers access not only to the contributions of Viktor Frankl but to the grand extrapolations that have been made by those who have learned from him. Like a force of... (more)
When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space: Existential Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Although it is a natural and inescapable part of life, death is a subject that is often neglected in psychotherapeutic literature and training. In "When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space", Laura... (more)
Therapy with Children: An Existential Perspective
This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness
The unspoken yearning that brings people to therapy is often that of a desperate desire for happiness. Should therapists ignore this desire, interpret it or challenge it? And what does our... (more)
Love and Will
The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation. Bringing fresh insight to these concepts, May shows... (more)
Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice
This promises to be a landmark in the fields of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. A comprehensive revision of its predecessor, "The Psychology of Existence", co-edited by Kirk Schneider and... (more)
The Emergent Self: An Existential-Gestalt Approach
This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and in its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes first the theory he is... (more)
Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
A guide to achieving deeper self-awareness through an understanding of one's desires draws on Buddhist parables to counsel readers on overcoming self-defeating habits, the perceptions of others, and... (more)
The Integrity Model of Existential Psychotherapy in Working with the 'Difficult Patient'
Dealing with the therapeutic impasse is one of the most challenging tasks faced by therapists. This book describes how the Integrity Model of psychotherapy provides an original solution to dealing... (more)
The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology: Second Edition
The Interpreted World, Second Edition, is a welcome introduction to phenomenological psychology, an area of psychology which has its roots in notoriously difficult philosophical literature and... (more)
Dictionary of Existential Therapy and Counselling
A comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application. With over 350 entries (cross-referenced throughout), the book is the ideal companion to studying the the ideas of... (more)
The Mirror and the Hammer: Challenges to Therapeutic Orthodoxy
The author raises issues surrounding therapeutic thought and practice and propounds his iconoclastic views on such subjects as refuting the unconscious, creativity, paranormal phenomena, sexuality,... (more)
Embodied Theories
Embodied Theories explores the various ways in which a therapist can be a living expression of his or her theoretical approach. Expert practitioners from a wide variety of modes articulate their... (more)
Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
This study defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change, and innocence as the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtue. From these concepts, the author of this book... (more)
Psychology and the Human Dilemma
This reissue discusses the loss of our personal identity in the contemporary world, the sources of our anxiety, the scope of psychotherapy, and the ultimate paradox of freedom and responsibility. (more)
The Crucible of Experience: R.D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy
One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R.D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this book, Laing's widely praised biographer distils... (more)
Spirituality and Ageing
This volume presents the experience of ageing as an opportunity for spiritual reflection and affirmation of life. The contributors are religious and spiritual leaders and ethical thinkers from a... (more)
Freedom and Destiny
Examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibility that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny. (more)
Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy
The first part of this book looks at major life issues that people have difficulties with, such as self-confidence, intimacy, power, death and change. The second part considers what existential... (more)
Existential time-limited therapy: The wheel of existence
Existential ideas are worked into a structured, time-limited modular approach. The book presents an overview of principal existential ideas, and then applies them to the model, using case vignettes... (more)
Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy
Introduces the history and ideas of existential phenomenology and psychotherapy, and compares them with their psychodynamic counterparts. The author shows how therapeutic phenomena familiar to all... (more)