Existential Foundations of Psychology

Existential Foundations of Psychology

Author: Adrian L. Van Kaam

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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As man becomes more aware of himself and his relation to the world, the resultant new attitude toward reality inevitably influences all areas of science. The author re-examines scientific psychology in this light and comes up with a new, comprehensive anthropological psychology.


Existential Psychology and Sport

Existential Psychology and Sport

Author: Mark Nesti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 113446147X

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Increasing numbers of professional teams and athletes look for assistance with the psychological factors of their performance, and there exists a growing body of professional sport psychologists ready to provide support. Despite this, it seems at times there remains a significant gap between the real needs of sport performers and what is delivered by traditional sport psychology. The existential approach described by Mark Nesti offers a radical alternative to the cognitive and cognitive-behavioural approaches that have dominated sport psychology, and represents the first systematic attempt to apply existential psychological theory and phenomenological method to sport psychology. This much-needed alternative framework for the discipline of applied sport psychology connects to many of the real and most significant challenges faced by sports performers during their careers and beyond. Existential Psychology and Sport outlines an approach that can be used to add something of depth, substance and academic rigour to sport psychology in applied settings beyond the confines of MST and good listening skills.


The Discovery of Being

The Discovery of Being

Author: Rollo May

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-05-04

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 039334696X

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“Clear, accurate, and interesting. There is no better short introduction to the existential approach to psychology.” —Dallas Morning News The brilliant psychologist Rollo May was a major force in existential psychology. Here, he brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insights into its ideas and techniques. He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation and to our search to find new and firm moorings in order to move toward a future where responsibility, creativity, and love can play a role.


Existential Psychotherapy

Existential Psychotherapy

Author: Irvin D. Yalom

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 1541647440

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The definitive account of existential psychotherapy. First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered to be the foundational text in its field— the first to offer a methodology for helping patients to develop more adaptive responses to life’s core existential dilemmas. In this seminal work, American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom finds the essence of existential psychotherapy and gives it a coherent structure, synthesizing its historical background, core tenets, and usefulness to the practice. Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four "ultimate concerns of life"—death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness—the book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifest in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience, empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom provides an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatibility of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that have surprised and enlightened generations of readers.


Existential Therapy

Existential Therapy

Author: Laura Barnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1136511091

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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 has moved along rapidly and this book considers how it has developed over the past fifty years, and the implications that this has for the future. In their 50th anniversary of this classic book, Laura Barnett and Greg Madison bring together many of today's foremost existential therapists from both sides of the Atlantic, together with some newer voices, to highlight issues surrounding existential therapy today, and look constructively to the future whilst acknowledging the debt to the past. Dialogue is at the heart of the book, the dialogue between existential thought and therapeutic practice, and between the past and the future. Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue, focuses on dialogue between key figures in the field to cover topics including: historical and conceptual foundations of existential therapy perspectives on contemporary Daseinanalysis the search for meaning in existential therapy existential therapy in contemporary society. Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue explores how existential therapy has changed in the last five decades, and compares and contrasts different schools of existential therapy, making it essential reading for experienced therapists as well as for anyone training in psychotherapy, counselling, psychology or psychiatry who wants to incorporate existential therapy into their practice.


Cultural-Existential Psychology

Cultural-Existential Psychology

Author: Daniel Sullivan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1107096863

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Bridging cultural and experimental existential psychology, this book offers a synthetic understanding of how culture shapes psychological threat.


Meaning, Mortality, and Choice

Meaning, Mortality, and Choice

Author: Phillip R. Shaver

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781433811555

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Theorists examine the nature of universal themes such as the importance of personal choice and human autonomy in an arbitrary world, and the vital roles of parenthood and religion in providing solace against the threat of meaninglessness.