Existential therapy Books
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry
This text re-examines R.D. Laing's work in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement. It provides a reassessment of his radical ideas and their significance for psychotherapy and psychiatry today.... (more)
The Art of Counselling
An indispensable guide for anyone engaged in counselling, or interested in understanding the inner workings of personality.
The Art of Counselling is an insightful guide for all who work in... (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)
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)
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)
Structural Existential Analysis: An Existential-Phenomenological Method for Researching Life
Structural Existential Analysis (SEA) is a qualitative research method which uses an existential-phenomenological framework that has been developed through decades of therapeutic and research... (more)
Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity
In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of... (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)
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)
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)
The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing
In his final years, R.D. Laing (1927-1989) was arriving at lectures addled with hashish and brandy. Yet, earlier in the 20th-century he was an influential psychiatrist. Still, the author points out... (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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sexuality: Existential Perspectives
Sexuality is a fascinating phenomenon. Familiar to us all, it pervades the personal, social and cultural areas of life; it also remains an elusive and confusing aspect of our existence. Within a... (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)
On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
This classic edition of On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis sees Viktor E. Frankl, bestselling author and founder of logotherapy,... (more)
