Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness

by Emmy Van Deurzen

In this book, Emmy van Deurzen addresses the taboo subject of the moral role of psychotherapists and counselors. Asking when and why we decided that the aim of life is to be happy, she poses searching questions about the meaning of life. Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness seeks to define what a good life consists of and how therapists might help their clients to live well rather than just in search of happiness.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Counselling

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Emmy van Deurzen (born 13 December 1951 in The Hague, Netherlands) is an existential therapist and honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield.

After moving to the UK in 1977 to work with anti-psychiatrists, she founded the Society for Existential Analysis in 1988, and later created a London-based training institute for the Lapproach at Regent's College in 1985, before leaving to found The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in 1996 at Schiller International University. In 2010 The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling became independent and is now situated in South Hampstead, London.

Her therapy work is based in existential philosophy, as a form of philosophical counseling, and focuses on enabling people to reflect on their lives with equal attention to past, present and future in order to draw on their strengths, talents and abilities, whilst facing up to the limitations of life.
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Reviews

[Μαρία · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Να ζεις μια καλή ζωή με το δικό σου τρόπο...όταν από την αρετή προκύπτει η ανάγκη κι όταν από την ανάγκη προκύπτει η αρετή, τότε αυτό κάνει όλη τη διαφορά ανάμεσα στην αποτυχία και σε μια καλή, εκ νέου προσανατολισμένη ζωή."

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Raises some important questions but makes too many unsupported assumptions about how these questions should be answered and is (understandably) too interested in promoting the importance of existential psychotherapy

[Ben Hammond · Rating 5 out of 5]

dude this book is hella

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