Existence: a New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology

Since its publication, Existence has been regarded as the most important, complete, and lucid account of the existentialist approach to psychology. From the works of the leading spokesmen of the existential analytic movement, the editors have selected classic case histories and other writings to define the approach that seeks to understand mental illness, in the words of Rollo May, \_...not as deviations from the conceptual yardstick of this or that psychiatrist...but as deviations in the structure of the particular patient's existence, the disruptions of his condition humane.\_ The Origins And Significance Of The Existential Movement In Psychology / Rollo May -- Contributions Of Existential Psychotherapy / Rollo May -- A Clinical Introduction To Psychiatric Phenomenology And Existential Analysis / Henri F. Ellenberger -- Findings In A Case Of Schizophrenic Depression / Eugene Minkowski -- Aesthesiology And Hallucinations / Erwin W. Straus -- The World Of The Compulsive / V.e. Von Gebsattel -- The Existential Analysis School Of Thought / Ludwig Binswanger -- Insanity As Life-historical Phenomenon And As Mental Disease : The Case Of Ilse / Ludwig Binswanger -- The Case Of Ellen West / Ludwig Binswanger -- The Attempted Murder Of A Prostitute / Roland Kuhn. Rollo May, Ernest Angel, Henri F. Ellenberger, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References. Offers an account of the existentialist approach to psychology. This title defines the approach that seeks to understand mental illness.