History of Existential Psychology - Introduction to Existential Psychology Volume 1

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology. It presents the philosophical and historical roots of existential psychology. It introduces the most important philosophical schools in the development of existentialism and their creators.

List of contents

1. Psychology and Existentialism
Part 1. Historical Grounding of Existential Psychology
2. Philosophy: Ontology and Philosophical Anthropology
3. The Contribution of 19th- to 20th-Century Lebensphilosophie, Theology and Far-East Philosophy
4. Philosophy: Epistemology
5. Literary Roots of Existential Psychology
6. The Psychological-Psychiatric Antecedents and Parallels of Existential Psychology: Psychoanalysis
7. Friends of the Family: The Contributions of Neo-Analytic Authors and Humanistic Psychoanalysts
8. Bridges between Psychoanalysis and Existential-Humanistic Psychology
9. Phenomenological Psychiatry, Anthropological Trends and Geisteswissenschaftlich Psychology
Part 2. The Schools of Existential Psychology
10. Daseinsanalysis
11. Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
12. The Existential-Humanistic School of Psychology
13. The Existential-Phenomenological School of Psychology
14. Leopold Szondi's Fate Analysis: The Lost "Existential-Anancological" School of Psychology

About the author

Zoltán K¿váry, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, litterateur, linguist and expert in existential counseling. He is an associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. His main research interests are in the history and theory of existential psychology and depth psychologies, eco-psychology, the psychology of creativity and psychobiographical research. He is an author of more than 70 articles, author and editor/coeditor of seven books and an editor of the journal Imago Budapest. As well as running his own private practice in Budapest as an existential therapist, he is the leader of a rock band and interested in ornithology.

Summary

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology. It presents the philosophical and historical roots of existential psychology. It introduces the most important philosophical schools in the development of existentialism and their creators.

Product details

• Authors: Zoltan Kovary, Zoltán Kőváry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032703084
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270308-4
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Psychotherapy, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism