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Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom
Harper Perennial, 2000
Yalom speaks to and for all of us
This book is simply wonderful. The first chapter about Momma is worth the price of the book all by itself. Whether one is a therapist, is in therapy, is curious about therapy, or just wants to understand life, read this book, in fact, read all of Yalom's books, (well, ...
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the ...
William Alexander
Algonquin Books, 2007
very entertaining book
Loved this book. I so identified with the author. There were so many times I just laughed out loud. I too have grown the $64 tomato!
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Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
Stephen Batchelor
Grove Press, 1994
Powerful, intriguing and extremely engaging.
I found this book of approximately 130 pages absolutely fascinating. While it is very non-traditional, it provides a bridge that helps the modern person to relate some of the most important concepts of Buddhism through the bridge provided by Western existentialist ...
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The Yalom Reader: Selections From The Work Of A Master Therapist And Storyteller
Irvin D. Yalom
Basic Books, 1998
An excellent overview of Yalom's prior work
As a psychologist working in a college counseling center, I found this book to be a useful review of Yalom's prior publications. The first part of the book draws from Yalom's definitive text on group therapy, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY. In this ...
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The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, The Video Game As Existential Metaphor
Christopher Monks
Tow Books, 2008
For anyone who has ever felt that life is like a video game comes this fauxgame guide for a fictional role-playing adventure video game titled "YourLife." The main character is "You", an assuming everyman with a good heart who, despite trying his best, often gets the short end of the stick. The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life walks players ...
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Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics)
Irvin D. Yalom
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
The dark and sometimes disturbing world of psychology
This excellent book takes an in depth look at the dark and sometimes disturbing world of psychology. Even the therapist sometimes doesn't know what's going on as he takes the journey into the windmills of the mind...very well written and very informative and sometimes ...
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The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
Rollo May
W. W. Norton & Company, 1994
Good Existential Psychology Introduction
Rollo May provides in this book a good introduction to existential psychotherapy. He clearly introduces the central concepts of existentialism and provides wonderful insight into human beings from that perspective. What makes this book especially appealing is the ...
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Psychology)
R. D. Laing
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1965
An existential approach to the conception of the self
In this valuable study, Dr Laing proposes to examine the way some individuals are very proficient in acquiring a false self in order to adapt to false realities and to give an account of specifically personal forms of depersonalisation and disintegration. It is no ...
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Existential Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom
Basic Books, 1980
Most Illuminating Psych Book I've Read
As a psychiatrist, I have yet to read a more illuminating book on how mental illnesses can develop, and how to help patients' to become free of them.
Existential Psychotherapy presents a theory of the existential forces that drive all human beings--knowledge of ...
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
William Barrett
Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1962
Between the immediate and the theoretical
Nothing is more exhausting than the search for meaning. Every question has a thousand answers, each claiming to be correct. And each can be challenged by a thousand objections. Evermore we come out the same door as in we went, and return to -- ourselves. We alone are ...
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Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment ...
Nancy Whitney-Reiter
Sentient Publications, 2008
Unplug
Unplug
Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment (Culture Tools)
The other day I heard of a friend who was planning to go off on a year long sabbatical at Christmas. My mum rather dryly remarked ...
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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics)
Jean-Pau Sartre
Routledge, 2003
I liked being, I skipped nothingness.
This book is really a propaganda piece whose primary objective was to rouse French people to resist German occupiers. Published under enemy censorship, it reads between the lines as an appeal to French guilt about not facing up to their responsibilities. Sartre ...
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Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice
Routledge, 2007
Best presentation of current efforts.
The leading international practitioners of existential-humanistic therapy have chapters in this book. Kirk Schneider provides the most detailed description of the psychological and philosphical foundations of this work. Each case demonstrates both the influence of this ...
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Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think: Bringing the Psychotherapeutic Engagement into the Living Moment
James F. T. Bugental
Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, 1999
A true master therapist speaks again.
Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think: Bringing the Psychotherapeutic Engagement Into the Living Moment. James F.T. Bugental, Ph.D. Zeig/Tucker, 1999. The latest work of this pioneering existential-humanistic master psychotherapist. The subtitle concisely states ...
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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 1988
Continuation of Being and Time
This book is a must read for those that choose to read Being and Time. The book itself is based, like so many of Heidegger's books, off of a lecture course he gave at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1927. This is important because Being and Time was ready ...
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