Existential Psychoanalysis - A Contemporary Introduction

An introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and guiding the reader on how to incorporate these two disciplines, which may appear disparate on the surface, into their clinical and theoretical work.

List of contents

Series Editor's Preface Preface Acknowledgements 1. What Is Existential Psychoanalysis? 2. Sartre and Psychoanalysis 3. Vicissitudes of Authenticity 4. The Demise of the Person in Psychoanalysis Conclusion

About the author

M. Guy Thompson is the founder and Director of the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, and a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, USA. He is the author of Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity (2023) and The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (second edition, 2016), and the editor of The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance (2015).

Product details

• Authors: M. Guy Thompson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032977867
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3297786-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Existential