Sharing Meaning and Nothingness: An existential therapist’s poetic reflections

Abstract

This paper expands on my presentation at the Society for Existential Analysis Conference 2025, where I shared poems from Meaning and Nothingness: An existential therapist’s poetic reflections. Drawing on themes voiced across multiple clinical settings, the paper examines poetry as an existential method that illuminates shared human concerns, bridges self and other, and supports the existentialist’s role today in a rapidly shifting world.