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The second in a two-part set, this volume offers a detailed examination of the application of existential psychology. This book begins by looking at the 'conditio humana' - the most important topics of existential psychology, including anxiety, freedom, choices, authenticity, suffering and meaning, creativity, togetherness, time, and death.
List of contents
Part 1. Conditio Humana: The Main Themes of Existential Psychology1. Characteristics and Modes of Being-in-the-World
2. The Enigma of Anxiety
3. Freedom and Responsibility
4. Boundary Situations and Crises
5. "To Thine Own Self Be True.": Choices, Authentic Self and Destiny
6. I and Thou: The Existential of Being-with and the Question of Love
7. Homo Patiens: Suffering and Searching for Meaning
8. "Time Swallows up Your Life." Time, Finitude and Being-Towards-Death
9. Homo Creativus
10. The Unconscious God and Überwelt
Part 2. Applications of Existential Approach in Psychology11. Dreams and Existence
12. Pathic Existence and the Questions of Psychopathology
13. Existential Psychology and Scientific Research
14. Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling: General Introduction and Daseinsanalysis
15. Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
16. Existential-Humanistic and Existential Integrative Psychotherapy and Counseling
17. Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy and Counseling
18. Further Applications of Existential Psychology in this field, Existential Family and Group Therapies
Part 3. Existentialism and Psychology in the 21st Century19. The Return of Existential View at the Turn of the Millennium and the Beginning of the 21st Century
20. New Developments and Challenges
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 seventy 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 second in a two-part set, this volume offers a detailed examination of the application of existential psychology. This book begins by looking at the ‘conditio humana’ – the most important topics of existential psychology, including anxiety, freedom, choices, authenticity, suffering and meaning, creativity, togetherness, time, and death.
