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Existential Psychology Books
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Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.37 — 850,165 ratings — published 1946
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,111 ratings — published 1980
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,116 ratings — published 2001
The Discovery of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,096 ratings — published 1984
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,587 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,073 ratings — published 1953
The Meaning of Anxiety (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.25 — 737 ratings — published 1977
The Schopenhauer Cure (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.28 — 30,316 ratings — published 2005
The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,909 ratings — published 1969
Freedom and Destiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.22 — 294 ratings — published 1981
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,512 ratings — published 1973
Love and Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,705 ratings — published 1969
The Cry for Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.06 — 431 ratings — published 1991
I and Thou (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,769 ratings — published 1923
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,368 ratings — published 1960
Existential psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 495 ratings — published 1956
The Search for Existential Identity: Patient-Therapist Dialogues in Humanistic Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.46 — 283 ratings — published 1976
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,337 ratings — published 1961
The Courage to Create (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,175 ratings — published 1975
A Matter of Death and Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,150 ratings — published 2021
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,624 ratings — published 1989
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.22 — 13,831 ratings — published 2015
The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.34 — 975 ratings — published 1962
Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 110 ratings — published 1958
The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,702 ratings — published 1946
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,178 ratings — published 1974
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.00 — 93,161 ratings — published 1956
The Art of the Psychotherapist: How to Develop the Skills That Take Psychotherapy Beyond Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.38 — 93 ratings — published 1987
The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 169 ratings — published 2011
Motivation and Personality (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,688 ratings — published 1954
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,930 ratings — published 1849
Экзистенциальная психология и психотерапия (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Современный экзистенциальный анализ: история, теория, практика, исследования (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Person. Экзистенциально-аналитическая теория личности (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2008
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,866 ratings — published 1835
The Authenticity of Faith : The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.27 — 97 ratings — published 2012
The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.41 — 74 ratings — published 1978
A Different Existence: Principles of Phenomenological Psychopathology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.00 — 38 ratings — published 1972
Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.22 — 647 ratings — published 1951
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,636 ratings — published 1958
Living in Paradox: The Theory and Practice of Contextual Existentialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2008
Knots (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,614 ratings — published 1970
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,919 ratings — published 2022
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.64 — 63,652 ratings — published 1994
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,712 ratings — published 2017
Filosofi Teras (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.49 — 9,407 ratings — published 2018
Skills in Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.32 — 119 ratings — published 2011
Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.56 — 115 ratings — published 2000
Analisis Eksistensial Untuk Psikologi & Psikiatri (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 3.72 — 25 ratings — published 2002
Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-psychology)
avg rating 4.21 — 34 ratings — published 1979
“The dispersion of the daimonic by means of impersonality has serious and destructive effects. In New York City, it is not regarded as strange that the anonymous human beings secluded in single-room occupancies are so often connected with violent crime and drug addiction. Not that the anonymous individual in New York is alone: he sees thousands of other people every day, and he knows all the famous personalities as they come, via TV, into his single room. He knows their names, their smiles, their idiosyncrasies; they bandy about in a “we're-all-friends-together” mood on the screen which invites him to join them and subtly assumes that he does join them. He knows them all. But he himself is never known. His smile is unseen; his idiosyncrasies are important to no-body; his name is unknown. He remains a foreigner pushed on and off the subway by tens of thousands of other anonymous foreigners. There is a deeply depersonalizing tragedy involved in this. The most severe punishment Yahweh could inflict on his people was to blot out their name. “Their names,” Yahweh proclaims, “shall be wiped out of the book of the living.”
This anonymous man's never being known, this aloneness, is transformed into loneliness, which may then become daimonic possession. For his self-doubts—“I don't really exist since I can't affect anyone” —eat away at his innards; he lives and breathes and walks in a loneliness which is subtle and insidious. It is not surprising that he gets a gun and trains it on some passer-by—also anonymous to him. And it is not surprising that the young men in the streets, who are only anonymous digits in their society, should gang together in violent attacks to make sure their assertion is felt.
Loneliness and its stepchild, alienation, can become forms of demon possession. Surrendering ourselves to the impersonal daimonic pushes us into an anonymity which is also impersonal; we serve nature’s gross purposes on the lowest common denominator, which often means with violence.”
― Love and Will
This anonymous man's never being known, this aloneness, is transformed into loneliness, which may then become daimonic possession. For his self-doubts—“I don't really exist since I can't affect anyone” —eat away at his innards; he lives and breathes and walks in a loneliness which is subtle and insidious. It is not surprising that he gets a gun and trains it on some passer-by—also anonymous to him. And it is not surprising that the young men in the streets, who are only anonymous digits in their society, should gang together in violent attacks to make sure their assertion is felt.
Loneliness and its stepchild, alienation, can become forms of demon possession. Surrendering ourselves to the impersonal daimonic pushes us into an anonymity which is also impersonal; we serve nature’s gross purposes on the lowest common denominator, which often means with violence.”
― Love and Will
“The new basis for care is shown by the interest of psychologists and philosophers in emphasizing feeling as the basis of human existence. We now need to establish feeling as a legitimate aspect of our way of relating to reality. When William James says, “Feeling is everything,” he means not that there is nothing more than feeling, but that everything starts there. Feeling commits one, ties one to the object, and ensures action. But in the decades after James made this "existentialist" statement, feeling became demoted and was disparaged as merely subjective. Reason or, more accurately, technical reason was the guide to the way issues were to be settled. We said “I feel” as a synonym for “I vaguely believe” when we didn't know—little realizing that we cannot know except as we feel.”
― Love and Will
― Love and Will
