Product Description

This text draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud and other important thinkers to offer a guide to the ideas and techniques of existential psychology. It pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation and to the search for stability in an age of anxiety.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92734 in Books
• Published on: 1995-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

The best introduction to existential psychology
This is the most succinct and authoritative introduction to existential psychology and psychotherapy currently available. It contains a variety of May's pithy and penetrating essays on the subject, including his introductory chapter to the classic collection EXISTENCE (1958) that first conveyed the tenets of European existential analysis across the Atlantic to America. When I teach courses on existential psychotherapy, this is one of the titles I like to include as required reading.

Dated but good Historical Introduction
I am a big fan of May and so I recommend this book on the basis of his persona rather than the lessons to be learned from reading this volume.

It has some generally strong points regarding the historical introduction to Existential Psychology and to how it came about. Those will not be too helpful for the fletching therapist looking to learn the basics but rather help you understand the greater historical/philosophical scheme of things for your own sake.

The last chapters on Heidegger are not too helpful which is why the book only gets four stars. But it is still a great read!