APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology: Two Volume Set

Book Details
- Publisher : American Psychological Association
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 1240
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Existential therapy - Catalogue No : 98301
- ISBN 13 : 9781433843280
- ISBN 10 : 1433843285
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1: History, Research, Philosophy, and Theory
Part I - History and Structure
1. A History of Humanistic and Existential Psychology: The Possibility and Cultural Contexts of Renewal in Science
Frederick J. Wertz
2. Branches of Humanistic and Existential Psychology
Zenobia Morrill and José G. Luiggi-Hernández
Part II - Research
3. Qualitative Methods of Humanistic and Existential Research Grounded in Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, and Constructivist Paradigms
Scott D. Churchill and Amy Fisher-Smith
4. Participatory and Relational Methodologies: Emergent Undercommons, Generative Refusals, and Fugitive Movements
Susan James and Helene Lorenz
5. A Quantitative Review of Select Methods in Existential and Humanistic Psychology
Cathy R. Cox, Thomas B. Sease, and Francesca Gentea
Part III - Philosophy and Literature
6. Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers: Emergent Perspectives and Advancements
Susi Ferrarello and Francesca Brencio
7. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Daniel Sullivan
8. Sartre, Beauvoir, and Merleau Ponty: The French Existentialists
Claire Arnold-Baker, Simon Wharne, and Jak Icoz
9. Frantz Fanon: Toward a New Humanism
Leswin Laubscher
Part IV - Psychological Theory
10. Conceptual and Historical Foundations of Human Science for Psychology
Christopher M. Aanstoos
11. Otto Rank’s Original Contributions to Humanistic and Existential Psychology
Will Wadlington
12. The Existential Phenomenological Self: Perspectives and Insights
Fred J. Hanna and Joel Givens
13. Existential Anxiety and Guilt
Claire S. LeBeau, Amanda B. Lowe, and Heather Macdonald
14. Self-Actualization and Coactualization
Andrew M. Bland
15. “A Little Stand-offish”: Existential and Humanistic Diagnostic Perspectives
Anthony J. Pavlo
16. Encountering the Daimonic: The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Evil
Stephen Arthur Diamond
17. Terror Management Theory: Toward a Merger of Existential and Experimental Approaches to Understanding Human Behavior and Experience
Tom Psyzczynski and Moussa Diarra
18. Contemporary Considerations of Freedom
Emmy van Deurzen
19. Peak and Plateau Experiences and our Higher Human Nature – With a Touch of Creativity
Ruth Richards and Stanley Krippner
20. Myth and Existential Psychotherapy: Toward Inclusivity
Jason Dias and Justin J. Underwood
21. Relationality, Isolation, and Alienation
Louis Hoffman and Sabah Islam
22. Existential-Humanistic Developmental Psychology
Eugene Mario DeRobertis
23. Authenticity and Genuineness
Todd DuBose
24. Rethinking Individualism, Collectivism, and Conformity
Micah Ingle
25. Critical Psychology
Oksana Yakushko
26. An Existential Perspective on Positive Psychology: Towards a General Theory of Global Flourishing
Paul T. P. Wong
27. A Contextualized Study of Zhi Mian and Its Critical View of Confucianism and Taoism: A Perspective of Humanism and Existentialism in Advocacy of Individualism
Xuefu Wang
28. Liberation Psychologies and Decolonialities: Defecting from Environments of Domination to Build Spaces of Collective Agency, Prefigurative Politics, and Ecological Justice
Helene Lorenz and Susan James
29. Reclaiming the Assimilation of Humanistic and Existential Psychology
Brent Dean Robbins
VOLUME 2 - Clinical and Social Applications
Part I - Psychotherapy
1. Foundations of Humanistic and Existential Therapy
Drake Spaeth
2. Integrating Multicultural Perspectives
Makenna Berry Newton and Theopia Renee Jackson
3. Collaborative Assessment
Hadas Pade and Alea Holman
4. Coupling Existential-Humanistic and Systemic Paradigms
H. Luis Vargas and Lindsay L. Edwards
5. Humanistic Child Therapy: Facilitating Healing Relationships
Dee C. Ray and Elizabeth V. Aguilar
6. Contemporary Existential Group Psychotherapy: A Practice for Our Time
Francis J. Kaklauskas and Farooq Mohyuddin
7. The Use of Research in Humanistic and Existential Therapy
Hein Zegers and Siebrecht Vanhooren
8. Expressive Arts Therapy
Sue Ann Herron
9. Meaning Interventions: Working with Meaning in Life in Psychological Therapies
Pninit Russo-Netzer and Joel Vos
10. Awe and Dread: An Existential Approach to Religion
Daryl R. Van Tongeren
11. Existential-Humanistic Psychology’s Rightful Place in the Trauma Discourse
Theopia Renee Jackson and Marguerite Elise Pintauro
12. LGBTQ+ Applications in Humanistic and Existential Psychology
Madeline R. Stenersen and Sara K. Bridges
13. Women and Humanistic Psychology
Vanessa F. Brown, Courtney D. Cabell, and Gina S. Belton
14. Existential Sex Therapy
Shanae Adams
15. Existential Humanistic Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy
Betz King and Veronica Lac
16. Somatic Psychotherapy
Eleanor Criswell Hanna
17. Power Issues in Psychotherapy and How Contemporary Humanistic-Existential Approaches Address Them
Heidi M. Levitt and Zenobia Morrill
18. Existential and Humanistic Integrative Therapies
Siebrecht Vanhooren and Kirk J. Schneider
19. Emotion-Focused Therapy
Zoë Goldstein, Rhonda Goldman, and Danaë Rollet
20. Gestalt Therapy
Samuel Kohlenberg and Ian Wickramasekera II
21. A Brief Introduction to Constructivist Psychotherapy
Sara K. Bridges and Jonathan D. Raskin
22. Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Existential Psychology
Rebecca Marcelina Gimeno
23. Clinical Supervision Conducted From an Existential-Humanistic Perspective
Mark C. Yang and Xian Zhang
Part II - Social and Systemic Applications
24. Social Justice and Humanistic Psychology
L. Xochitl Vallejos and Nathaniel Granger, Jr.
25. Meaning in Life and Society
Joel Vos
26. Humanistic and Existential Approaches to Advocacy and Activism
Apryl A. Alexander, Hannah Klukoff, and Bronwyn Neal
27. Polarization and the Experiential Democracy Dialogue
Kirk J. Schneider
28. Ecopsychology
Derrick Sebree, Jr. and Gina S. Belton
29. Deconstructing International Psychology
Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
30. Working With Organizational Systems
Gary S. Metcalf and Teresa A. Daniel
31. Indigenous Psychology
Louise Sundararajan
32. An Existential-Phenomenological Account of Community Psychology
Robert Garfield McInerney, Hannah Felix, Tea Johnson, Sam Merhaut, and Autumn Redcross