Existential therapy Books
The Existential Importance of the Penis: A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality
The first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.
Alighting from the existential... (more)
An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma: Modes of Existing and Confrontations with Reality
An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma provides a new existential framework for understanding the experiences of interpersonal trauma building on reflections from Marc Boaz's own personal... (more)
Existential Therapies: Second Edition
What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? What are their strengths and limitations? Focusing on practical, face-to-face work with... (more)
Interpersonal Conflict: An Existential Psychotherapeutic and Practical Model
Interpersonal Conflict provides a psychotherapeutic and philosophical understanding of the nature of interpersonal conflict. Arguing that facilitating conflict resolution has little to do with... (more)
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling: Contributions to a Pluralistic Practice
This book is for trainees and practitioners across the orientations who wish to incorporate an existential approach into their practice. Using a pluralistic perspective that recognises the diversity... (more)
Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World: Second Edition
Drawn from the author's experience as an internationally-recognised theorist, lecturer and practitioner, this practical book elucidates the notoriously difficult and distinctly different therapeutic... (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)
The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
Rollo May pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety. (more)
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked... (more)
Re-Visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives
Re-Visioning Existential Therapy is a collection of essays from leading practitioners and theorists around the globe which questions some of the key tenets of traditional existential... (more)
An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges
In An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges, Monica Hanaway progresses us forward from a brief, introductory understanding of existential thought to considering how this approach can... (more)
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism
Del Loewenthal's career has been wide-ranging, spanning existentialism, psychoanalysis, critical psychotherapy, humanism, postmodernism, phototherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and childhood... (more)
The Existential Leader: An Authentic Leader For Our Uncertain Times
The Existential Leader: An Authentic Leader For Our Uncertain Times invites us to reconsider our preconceptions about leadership, introducing a new model more in line with our uncertain times:... (more)
Dreaming Healing and Imaginative Arts Practice
In Dreaming, Healing and Imaginative Arts Practice, Kathleen Anne Connellan brings dream theory together with art practice and art psychotherapy to demonstrate how releasing the imagination can... (more)
Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features
Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this increasingly popular method. Written by two practicing existential psychotherapists, with many... (more)
Man's Search for Meaning
The classic tribute of hope from the Holocaust. Internationally renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. This led him to develop a revolutionary... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Human Issues: A Handbook for Therapeutic Practice
Offers students, teachers and practitioners alike a definitive handbook for the practice of existential psychotherapy. For the first time leading figures from the existential field have been brought... (more)
R.D. Laing: Contemporary Perspectives
This unique volume aims to re-establish R. D. Laing's position, and reputation, as the major critic of orthodox, medically-based, psychiatry. Laing's complex personality enabled powerful figures in... (more)
Apprehending the Inaccessible: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Existential Phenomenology
Throughout history, philosophers have relentlessly pursued what may be called "inaccessible domains." This book explores how the traditions of existential phenomenology and Eastern philosophy, in... (more)
Heidegger and the Roots of Existential Therapy
Hans W. Cohn explores the role of Heidegger's thought in providing an alternative basis for psychotherapeutic practice to the dominant psychodynamic, humanistic and cognitive approaches. Cohn also... (more)
Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations
Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions... (more)
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling After Postmodernism: The Selected Works of Del Loewenthal
Del Loewenthal's career has been wide-ranging, spanning existentialism, psychoanalysis, critical psychotherapy, humanism, postmodernism, phototherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and childhood... (more)
Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy
This is the definitive practical introduction to a skills-based approach in existential therapy. Accessible for those without a philosophical background, it describes the concrete and tangible... (more)
The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness: Second Edition
A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, The Death of Desire is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often... (more)
An Evolutionary Leap: Colin Wilson on Psychology
When the existential philosopher Colin Wilson died in December 2013, it was suggested by one perceptive obituary writer that, despite the seemingly diverse subject matter of his books, his true... (more)
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning
Turning existential therapy on its head, this exciting, all-new title approaches the theory from a positive, rather than the traditional deficit model. Authored by a leading figure in existential... (more)
Daseinsanalysis
Daseinsanalysis—the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic school of thought founded by Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss in the 1940s—had a huge impact on the development of existential therapies in the... (more)
Living Your Own Life: Existential Analysis in Action
This multi-author anthology is a short introduction to the world of existential psychotherapy, and specifically Existential Analysis. It gives concrete answers and demonstrates a way to apply this... (more)
The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance
The name R. D. Laing continues to be widely recognized by those in the psychotherapy community in the United States and Europe. Laing's books are a testament to his breadth of interests, including... (more)