Existential Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom · first published 1980 · ISBN 9780465021475
Yalom organizes existential psychotherapy around four ultimate concerns: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. He integrates European existential philosophy with practical clinical techniques, showing how patients unconsciously defend against awareness of these realities and how therapy can help them develop more adaptive responses.
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Psychiatric practice without understanding existential depth remains surface work. This book gives you a conceptual framework for why people suffer beyond chemical imbalance, and how meaning-making becomes therapeutic.
Understanding existential theory gives you a framework for why people actually come to therapy and what real change looks like. This book teaches you to hear the existential dimension in what clients bring you.