Existential therapy Books
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 Thought and Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy
Introduces the history and ideas of existential phenomenology and psychotherapy, and compares them with their psychodynamic counterparts. The author shows how therapeutic phenomena familiar to all... (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 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)
The Courage to Create
Explores the element of courage in creativity, in order to reveal the process of discovery through which a person generates new forms.
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)
Being-in, being-for, being-with
This text examines a series of pervasive themes relating to human existence and the challenges of being. Areas investigated include: the nature and meaning of 'being different', possessiveness and... (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)
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)
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)
Existential Social Work: Meaning Making in the Face of Distress
This book is a theoretical and practical guide for mental health professionals who wish to utilize existential principles in their social work and clinical practice.
Existential questions... (more)
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)
Existentialism in Pandemic Times: Implications for Psychotherapists, Coaches and Organisations
Building on Monica Hanaway’s previous publications, this timely volume considers the benefits of bringing an existential approach to psychotherapy, coaching, supervision and leadership, particularly... (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)
An Existential and Phenomenological Approach to Coaching Supervision
As the methodology for coaching supervision has grown and developed in recent years, so too has the need for comprehensive engagement with the needs of supervisees. This ground-breaking and... (more)
The Existential Counselling Primer: A Concise Introduction: Second Edition
Part of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist... (more)
Imagining, Second Edition: A Phenomenological Study
This book describes the essential forms which imagination assumes in everyday life. (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)
The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd: Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The... (more)
