Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
type: channel
description: The aim of Existential Analysis, the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, is to provide a forum for the expression of views and the exchange of ideas amongst those interested in existential-phenomenological analysis and its application to therapeutic practice and everyday life. The journal features original articles, theoretical papers, and practice-based reflections, aiming to foster dialogue and knowledge sharing within and beyond the existential psychotherapeutic community.
publisher: Society for Existential Analysis
language: en
publication name: Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
issn: 1752-5616
items: Book Review: Fascist Yoga: Grifters, occultists, white supremacists and the New Order in wellness
items: Making the invisible, visible
items: Book Review: Why in the World Not? An introduction to daseinanalysis
items: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Ambiguity: Implications for existential therapy
items: Existential Analysis and Psychoanalysis: Some points of contact
items: Existential Therapy Across Cultures: Reflections from New Zealand
items: Metamodernism and Psychedelics: The good, the bad, and the ugly
items: Development of Existential Psychotherapy in Central Asia
items: From Transience to Liberation: An existential-phenomenological arc
items: It is Truth that Heals
items: Sharing Meaning and Nothingness: An existential therapist’s poetic reflections
items: What Can Existential Therapists Offer in a Time of Climate Crisis?
items: The Psychosis of Existential Training: Towards an inclusive and equitable therapeutic practice
items: All Those Useless Passions: On Sartre, love and the sacred
items: Therapy for the Revolution: Lessons from the front line
items: Book Review: Dialogues on Madness and Wisdom: In Conversation with R. D. Laing
items: Breaching and Bridging: The journey from the tragicomedy of existence to the therapeutic encounter and back
items: Neglected Existential Thinkers: Lou Andreas-Salomé
items: The Anxiety of Strangers: A Heideggerian approach to leadership, therapy and transformation
items: Back to Me: Conversational narcissism and its amelioration in couples therapy
items: Writing Myself Home: A phenomenological enquiry
items: Encountering Our Daimonics: Existential dynamics within experiences trauma and humiliation
items: Stoats and Weasels
items: Existential Courage and the Fairy Tale of Little Red Riding Hood
items: Into the Wild Mind: Life-enhancing anxiety and the experiential democracy dialogue
items: Existential Responses to Wildness: The joy of making
items: A Walk on the Wild Side
items: Aggression – how we defend ourselves: An existential-phenomenological understanding
items: Existential Shattering
items: Who Do We Think We Are?

Book Review: Fascist Yoga: Grifters, occultists, white supremacists and the New Order in wellness
type: item
subject: Book Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Manu Bazzano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Manu Bazzano (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 205
ending page: 219
doi: 10.65828/ksyz6052

Making the invisible, visible
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Claire Arnold-Baker
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Claire Arnold-Baker (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 182
ending page: 189
doi: 10.65828/wwfxk064

Book Review: Why in the World Not? An introduction to daseinanalysis
type: item
subject: Book Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Kyle C. Glover
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Kyle C. Glover (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 191
ending page: 194
doi: 10.65828/nf6jhe53

Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Ambiguity: Implications for existential therapy
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description: This paper explores Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity as a framework for existential psychotherapy, using her typology of bad faith to illuminate clinical patterns of avoidance, disconnection and self-deception. It highlights the therapeutic value of ambiguity, freedom and ethical responsibility in fostering authentic, relational engagement.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Beauvoir
  topic: keywords
subject: ethics
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subject: ambiguity
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subject: bad faith
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subject: existential typology
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subject: freedom
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subject: psychotherapy
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subject: responsibility
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creator: Phil Taylor
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Phil Taylor (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 154
ending page: 171
doi: 10.65828/czkkdw11

Existential Analysis and Psychoanalysis: Some points of contact
type: item
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Andrea Sabbadini
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Andrea Sabbadini (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 172
ending page: 176
doi: 10.65828/ntb9vb50

Existential Therapy Across Cultures: Reflections from New Zealand
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description: Mental health services might be commissioned to provide contradictory interventions, such as symptom reduction or the recovery of wellbeing. Culturally sensitive or evidence-based interventions can pose dilemmas. Therapists in New Zealand mental health services face these dilemmas, and a move to existential therapy would align more closely with the worldview of indigenous populations.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: cross-cultural
  topic: keywords
subject: recovery model
  topic: keywords
subject: cultural sensitivity
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subject: indigenous worldviews
  topic: keywords
subject: social inclusion
  topic: keywords
creator: Simon Wharne
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Simon Wharne (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 115
ending page: 134
doi: 10.65828/mb5qbs89

Metamodernism and Psychedelics: The good, the bad, and the ugly
type: item
description: This paper examines how psychedelic therapy reflects metamodern sensibilities – navigating between scepticism, hope, science and subjectivity. Rather than prescribing outcomes, it explores how patients engage psychedelic experiences as meaning-making processes within complex cultural and psychological landscapes, inviting new perspectives on healing, integration and the role of consciousness in existential therapy.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Psychedelics
  topic: keywords
subject: metamodernism
  topic: keywords
subject: existentialism
  topic: keywords
creator: Michael R. Montgomery
creator: Noah Cebuliak
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Michael R. Montgomery (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 135
ending page: 153
doi: 10.65828/zybtsk71

Development of Existential Psychotherapy in Central Asia
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description: This article is about the evolution of existential psychotherapy in Central Asia, from Soviet-era psychiatry to modern practices. It emphasises the approach’s special congruence with the region’s cultural and philosophical traditions. These traditions focus on interconnectedness with nature, spiritual dimensions and trust in natural life processes. So cultural congruence, academic integration and unique challenges all position existential therapy as an authentic response to regional mental health needs.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: Central Asia
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subject: psychotherapy
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subject: east If we follow Nature as our guide
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subject: we shall never go astray.
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creator: Angelina Demilkhanova
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Angelina Demilkhanova (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 103
ending page: 114
doi: 10.65828/0dgkaj31

From Transience to Liberation: An existential-phenomenological arc
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description: This paper examines transience and finitude within existential-phenomenological therapy, tracing their philosophical foundations and therapeutic implications. It proposes an arc of dwelling, will and liberation, exploring whether the therapist's emotional dwelling can provide a temporary home for finitude and open pathways where transience engenders authenticity, existential freedom and renewal.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Transience
  topic: keywords
subject: finitude
  topic: keywords
subject: phenomenological dwelling
  topic: keywords
subject: effortful will
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subject: liberation psychology
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subject: authenticity
  topic: keywords
subject: liminality
  topic: keywords
subject: freedom
  topic: keywords
creator: Burcu Tuncel
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Burcu Tuncel (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 76
ending page: 90
doi: 10.65828/v1ddc984

It is Truth that Heals
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description: Existentialism came into China in the beginning of the twentieth century. It was a time when a galaxy of Chinese reform-minded intellectuals launched the New Culture Movement, which was likened to the Renaissance by Hu Shi, the leader of this revolution. Existential philosophers and writers such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky inspired this group of Chinese visionaries. They began to reevaluate the Chinese tradition of culture by exposing how Chinese people had been indoctrinated by feudalistic ideology and tyrannical rule which led to a Chinese mentality twisted into escapism. Lu Xun, a modern Chinese novelist and thinker, exposed this fact and advocated Zhi Mian as the antidote. The term Zhi Mian resonates deeply with existentialism in terms of facing the truth of reality, reflecting on suffering and a focus on the individual.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lu Xun
  topic: keywords
subject: truth
  topic: keywords
subject: healing
  topic: keywords
subject: Zhi Mian
  topic: keywords
subject: therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: culture
  topic: keywords
creator: Xuefu Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Xuefu Wang (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 68
ending page: 75
doi: 10.65828/z6x22a32

Sharing Meaning and Nothingness: An existential therapist’s poetic reflections
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description: 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.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: poetic inquiry
  topic: keywords
subject: lived experience
  topic: keywords
subject: phenomenology
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subject: temporality
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subject: embodiment
  topic: keywords
subject: hope and despair
  topic: keywords
subject: clinical practice
  topic: keywords
creator: Tavan Thomas
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Tavan Thomas (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 53
ending page: 67
doi: 10.65828/2db51a19

What Can Existential Therapists Offer in a Time of Climate Crisis?
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description: Based on a workshop given at this year's conference, this paper opens an enquiry into how existential therapy might respond to the climate crisis. The silence of our community on this topic is noticed and reflected upon. I take a sounding of how the psy-disciplines are conceiving of climate-related distress (for example, 'climate anxiety' or 'ecoanxiety'), before offering starting points on how a distinctively existential voice may enter this chorus.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Climate change
  topic: keywords
subject: climate crisis
  topic: keywords
subject: climate anxiety
  topic: keywords
subject: climate grief
  topic: keywords
subject: being-in- the-world
  topic: keywords
subject: lifeworld
  topic: keywords
creator: Emma Neville
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Emma Neville (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 40
ending page: 52
doi: 10.65828/81gbh294

The Psychosis of Existential Training: Towards an inclusive and equitable therapeutic practice
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description: This paper calls for decolonising existential psychotherapy by integrating Black existentialist thought. Challenging Eurocentric frameworks and epistemological bias, it repositions Black narratives as central to understanding human existence. Drawing on Fanon, hooks and Gordon, it promotes intersectional, anti-racist training that restores existential practice as a universal, inclusive approach to freedom, meaning and cultural identity.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existentialism
  topic: keywords
subject: decolonisation
  topic: keywords
subject: Black existentialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Eurocentrism
  topic: keywords
subject: intersectionality
  topic: keywords
subject: cultural trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: epistemological bias
  topic: keywords
subject: inclusivity
  topic: keywords
creator: Sheba Boakye-Duah
creator: Neresia Osbourne
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Sheba Boakye-Duah (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 26
ending page: 39
doi: 10.65828/4642pj68

All Those Useless Passions: On Sartre, love and the sacred
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description: In Being and Nothingness, Sartre describes the human being as a 'useless passion', a passion that has no justification for existence. Starting from this premise, I will draw connections between 'uselessness' and the sacred. Could one of the uses of these useless passions be Sartrean choice – the courage of freedom, responsibility and self-determination? Could choice be the antidote to the implicit passivity of the present?
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Choice
  topic: keywords
subject: Sartre
  topic: keywords
subject: existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: the sacred
  topic: keywords
creator: Manu Bazzano
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Manu Bazzano (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 12
ending page: 25
doi: 10.65828/e8bv1q70

Therapy for the Revolution: Lessons from the front line
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description: When the world is on fire, therapists increasingly meet clients shaped by uprising, collapse and uncertainty. These forces are not outside the therapeutic frame, they constitute it. Drawing on my lived experience and frontline work, this paper offers seven lessons for revolutionary practice rooted in courage, intimacy and collective liberation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Revolution
  topic: keywords
subject: liberation
  topic: keywords
subject: justice
  topic: keywords
subject: courage
  topic: keywords
subject: culture
  topic: keywords
subject: marginalisation
  topic: keywords
creator: Kim Loliya
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Kim Loliya (Author)
date: 2026-01-01
publication date: 2026-01-01
starting page: 7
ending page: 11
doi: 10.65828/0e5nw719

Book Review: Dialogues on Madness and Wisdom: In Conversation with R. D. Laing
type: item
subject: Book Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Claire Phoenix
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Claire Phoenix (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 397
ending page: 401
doi: 10.65828/x63n4a02

Breaching and Bridging: The journey from the tragicomedy of existence to the therapeutic encounter and back
type: item
description: This article explores the tragicomic nature of human existence, emphasising the interplay between rupture and repair within life's unpredictable narrative. Drawing from philosophical reflections, it attempts to describe the constant cycle of breaching and bridging, within the therapeutic encounter as well.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Bridge as process
  topic: keywords
subject: breaches and raptures
  topic: keywords
subject: tragicomedy of life
  topic: keywords
subject: therapeutic encounter
  topic: keywords
subject: presence
  topic: keywords
creator: Anna Kourtis
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Anna Kourtis (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 372
ending page: 383
doi: 10.65828/zhhvx819

Neglected Existential Thinkers: Lou Andreas-Salomé
type: item
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Digby Tantam
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Digby Tantam (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 384
ending page: 395
doi: 10.65828/79gwbs25

The Anxiety of Strangers: A Heideggerian approach to leadership, therapy and transformation
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description: This paper explores existential anxiety as a transformative site in psychotherapy and leadership, using Heidegger's phenomenology. Through a case study of a European manager in Japan, it examines the breakdown of conventions, the anxiety of encountering strangers and the potential for renewal through resolute engagement with uncertainty and difference.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential
  topic: keywords
subject: anxiety
  topic: keywords
subject: disruption
  topic: keywords
subject: conventions of leadership
  topic: keywords
subject: resolve
  topic: keywords
subject: strangers
  topic: keywords
subject: unheimlichket
  topic: keywords
creator: Steven Segal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Steven Segal (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 340
ending page: 356
doi: 10.65828/6cbr4217

Back to Me: Conversational narcissism and its amelioration in couples therapy
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description: Conversational narcissism, or self-oriented and other-neglecting habits of speaking and listening are common in intimate relationships, with deleterious effects. The same can be said about communication style mismatches, where partners normalize their own expressive habits and abnormalise those of their mate. The task in couples therapy is to help partners fine tune speaking with a listener in mind, and listening with a speaker in mind.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Conversational narcissism
  topic: keywords
subject: responsible responding
  topic: keywords
subject: communication style mismatches
  topic: keywords
subject: couples therapy
  topic: keywords
creator: Enrico Gnaulati
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Enrico Gnaulati (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 357
ending page: 371
doi: 10.65828/xtnatz27

Writing Myself Home: A phenomenological enquiry
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description: 'Home' and unheimlichkeit are phenomena that invite exploration of the complexity of human existence. Through a phenomenological enquiry into my own relationship with home, I explore the potential for finding a new home in meeting with clients in the therapy space.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Home
  topic: keywords
subject: unheimlichkeit
  topic: keywords
subject: existential migration
  topic: keywords
creator: Hermione Ruck Keene
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Hermione Ruck Keene (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 327
ending page: 339
doi: 10.65828/qzxkcn55

Encountering Our Daimonics: Existential dynamics within experiences trauma and humiliation
type: item
description: In order to understand the turbulence of our times, we must first turn to understand our own daimonics. Existential daimonics refers to our human capacity to bring about both great destruction/devastation and construction/creation in our own lives, the lives of others and the world around us. There is no 'us and them' when it comes to daimonic destructiveness and constructiveness that divides us is ethical and reflexive. Extending and reformulating the work of Rollo May and Stephen Diamond, and drawing on contemporary phenomenological psychotherapy, I suggest that understanding and holding the existential tensions that arise from the dynamic relationship within our personal daimonics can cultivate the ground for hope, understanding and healing.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Daimonics
  topic: keywords
subject: destruction
  topic: keywords
subject: creation
  topic: keywords
subject: trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: humiliation
  topic: keywords
creator: Marc Boaz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marc Boaz (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 316
ending page: 326
doi: 10.65828/19cvch57

Stoats and Weasels
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description: This biography of the author of The Wind in the Willows is a contribution to the field of existential psychobiography made famous by Sartre. The mood of The Wind in the Willows is blithe on the surface, but there are darker references to the many adversities in the life of its author, known to many people firstly as a man about town, and the secretary of the Bank of England. The book is an example of how creativity can detoxify the pain of loss, at least up to a limit: in Grahame’s case, the loss of a child by suicide.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Creativity
  topic: keywords
subject: adverse childhood experience
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subject: trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: Kenneth Grahame
  topic: keywords
subject: author
  topic: keywords
creator: Digby Tantam
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Digby Tantam (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 295
ending page: 304
doi: 10.65828/ke9fgp03

Existential Courage and the Fairy Tale of Little Red Riding Hood
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description: The theme of existential courage is one that has always attracted my attention. In this article, I will discuss existential courage and its relationship to a few other existential givens, such as freedom, authenticity, meaning and finitude in order to highlight its importance. It will also explore the relationship of courage to will and love, and the possible connection of childhood experiences for its development.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential courage
  topic: keywords
subject: will
  topic: keywords
subject: freedom
  topic: keywords
subject: meaning
  topic: keywords
subject: authenticity
  topic: keywords
subject: finitude
  topic: keywords
creator: Evgenia Georganda
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Evgenia Georganda (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 305
ending page: 315
doi: 10.65828/paxdx121

Into the Wild Mind: Life-enhancing anxiety and the experiential democracy dialogue
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description: Drawing on the 2024 film Conclave and related examples as background, I will describe life-enhancing anxiety and its implications for the bridge-building dialogue process I call the ‘experiential democracy dialogue’. Life-enhancing anxiety is the capacity to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence; it is also a capacity to live more on the edge of wonder and discovery than terror and overwhelm; and it is a profoundly needed skill in this era of anxiety-driven polarisation and certitude. I will describe a one-on-one format that aims to humanise starkly contrasting cultural and political positions. I will elaborate the structure of this format, including the six phases that comprise it, my experience facilitating it and research that backs it. I will conclude my talk with a plea for integrating experiential democracy principles into peoples’ day-to-day lives, thus expanding and deepening our encounters with differences, ‘otherness’ and the radically unknown. Viewing of Conclave is highly recommended.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Conclave
  topic: keywords
subject: anxiety
  topic: keywords
subject: dialogue
  topic: keywords
subject: fluid centre
  topic: keywords
subject: I-thou
  topic: keywords
creator: Kirk Schneider
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Kirk Schneider (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 287
ending page: 294
doi: 10.65828/nfxgj595

Existential Responses to Wildness: The joy of making
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description: What is our relationship with the material world around us? Do we passively consume it or do we engage with it and make something with it? This paper will examine the existential meaning of our relationship with the material world and how our relationship with it can have a dramatic effect on how we are, how we can be and how we can effect change in the world around us.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Wild
  topic: keywords
subject: making
  topic: keywords
subject: skills techniques
  topic: keywords
subject: paradox
  topic: keywords
subject: engagé
  topic: keywords
subject: human development
  topic: keywords
subject: attention
  topic: keywords
creator: Martin Adams
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Martin Adams (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 275
ending page: 286
doi: 10.65828/ypke9n41

A Walk on the Wild Side
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description: We have each been inspired by the Conference title to take different ways into the topic, but the theme which unites our presentations is a focus on what we as existential practitioners can bring to an understanding of our relationship with whatever we mean when we use the term ‘wildness’. I have taken the Conference title quite literally as an invitation to reflect on how we can go into ‘the Wild Woods’, and the therapeutic value of doing so. And bearing in mind this is the ‘Existential Movement’ conference, I will begin by focusing on what some of the existential founding philosophers have written about the importance of movement, and specifically physical exercise such as walking, and then I will go on to consider how this can impact on our relationship to our meaning world. In the course of this I will draw on the Four Worlds model, initially with regard to our relationship with the Umwelt, or physical dimension, but I will also briefly consider how a change in one dimension has more far-reaching implications for our relationship with all four dimensions of human living.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Wildness
  topic: keywords
subject: The Wind in the Willows
  topic: keywords
subject: walking
  topic: keywords
subject: movement
  topic: keywords
subject: Umwelt
  topic: keywords
subject: Four
  topic: keywords
creator: Simon du Plock
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Simon du Plock (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 262
ending page: 274
doi: 10.65828/bpj0wg41

Aggression – how we defend ourselves: An existential-phenomenological understanding
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description: The way in which humans defend themselves can be either a deliberate action or an automatic coping reaction. Both forms are briefly described before the focus shifts to the structure of coping reactions in general. A preliminary distinction between power and violence provides a basis for understanding the role of aggression. The main part of the paper describes typical forms of aggression and their corresponding existential themes, which relate to the four fundamental existential motivations.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Protective behaviour
  topic: keywords
subject: coping reactions
  topic: keywords
subject: existential analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: violence
  topic: keywords
subject: aggression
  topic: keywords
subject: fundamental existential motivations
  topic: keywords
creator: Alfried Längle
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alfried Längle (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 236
ending page: 246
doi: 10.65828/4dwxyf82

Existential Shattering
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description: The concept of existential shattering was introduced by Tom Greening before being developed by several of his former students and colleagues. Initially, it was defined as a sudden dismantling of one's meaning systems in worldview. In this article, we further develop and expand the definition of existential shattering, adding further nuance to its definition.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential shattering
  topic: keywords
subject: existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: moral injury
  topic: keywords
subject: limit situation
  topic: keywords
creator: Louis Hoffman
creator: Jeff Singer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Louis Hoffman (Author)
date: 2025-07-01
publication date: 2025-07-01
starting page: 247
ending page: 261
doi: 10.65828/mysv5e12

Who Do We Think We Are?
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description: This paper invites the reader to engage with the topic of roots - philosophical, embodied and familial, as we look to our future. With concrete, experiential examples and firmly grounded in existential philosophy, the author will bring insights from body-focused therapy and systemic constellations and offer her present personal perspective on Existential Therapy in an evolving world.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Existential therapy
  topic: keywords
subject: sensorimotor psychotherapy
  topic: keywords
subject: systemic constellations
  topic: keywords
subject: trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: roots
  topic: keywords
subject: embodied
  topic: keywords
creator: Laura Barnett
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Laura Barnett (Author)
date: 2024-01-01
publication date: 2024-01-01
starting page: 6
ending page: 17
doi: 10.65828/1pnw4f48