Existential Psychology
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What could be more important than the meaning of life? Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, Roy Baumeister, Clifford Geertz as well as Paul Wong an many existential/positive psychologists advocate a that a Need for Meaning is vital and pivotal in... more
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An introduction to the blind-spot in medicine: human existence is systematically left out of healthcare. Two stories are told that introduce this blind-spot. The first is that of Kurt Goldstein, the WWI German neuropsychiatrist who... more
Русский вариант статьи "Тhe existential and the spiritual in the existential anthropology of G. Marcel and E. Minkowski", опубликованной на англ. в сборнике Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research (Антропологічні виміри... more
Séminaire organisé en collaboration avec le Département de Philosophie de l'Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis ; le Laboratoire des Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie (LLCP, EA 4008) ; le Collège international de... more
So, let us see Siddhartha as a person, like so many before and after him, who earnestly struggled to resolve some basic existential questions about life; our existence on this planet and the conditions that we are not only subject to, but... more
This is a dialogue between two UK existential-phenomenological psychologists that took place by email over a year. It was instigated by concerns over Identity Politics and political polarisation generally. The dialogue ranged across... more
The goal of the presented book titled Singularity and Existential Communication is to explore the hermeneutical relation between the singular and the universal through a methodological account of Søren Kierkegaard's thought and its... more
In this essay I argue that a comprehensive understanding of addiction and its treatment should include an existential perspective. I provide a brief overview of an existential perspective of addiction and recovery, which will... more
In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Patrick Whitehead and Miles Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims and goals of the psychology as it first emerged. In the past 130 years, the field has veered greatly from its initial... more
Was Heidegger really doing philosophy or something else? This essay explores that question and examines the differences between his approach to philosophical inquiry and that which characterizes the analytical tradition in Anglo-American... more