Invitation to existential psychology : a psychology for the unique human being and its applications in therapy

What is existential psychology? -- Happiness and suffering -- Love and aloneness -- Adversity and success : the role of crisis in human development -- Death anxiety and life commitment -- Free choice and the obligations of your life reality -- To find the meaning of life in a chaotic world

Existential psychology examines how people deal with the biggest issues - such as finding meaning in life and facing death. It deals with many of the same problems as psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, but emphasises the view that one can understand the life of another by listening to their way of seeing existence andopening up their 'phenomenal world'. As a therapeutic approach it isrecognised by the British Psychological Society and taughton a number ofcourses. This introductory text discusses all the main contemporary theories of existential psychology, and illustrates them with case examples. Practical implications for clinical work are considered, and comparisons with other approaches such as humanistic psychotherapy are made throughout.

Existential psychology examines how people deal with the biggest issues - such as finding meaning in life and facing death. It deals with many of the same problems as psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, but emphasises the view that one can understand the life of another by listening to their way of seeing existence and opening up their ‘phenomenal world'. As a therapeutic approach it is recognised by the British Psychological Society and taught on a number of courses. This introductory text discusses all the main contemporary theories of existential psychology, and illustrates them with case examples. Practical implications for clinical work are considered, and comparisons with other approaches such as humanistic psychotherapy are made throughout. This introductory text discusses all the main contemporary theories of existential psychology and includes illustrative case examples. Practical implications for clinical work are considered, and comparisons with other approaches such as humanistic psychotherapy are made throughout.