Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom, Yalom

From the Publisher

Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to be practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of its tenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whose Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a service to that discipline since 1970, provides existential psychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four “ultimate concerns of life”—death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness—the book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifested in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them.Drawing from clinical experience, empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom has written a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatability of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and it opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that will surprise and enlighten all readers.

What People Are Saying

Rollo May
"A classic for those studying existential psychotherapy and indeed for all clinicians."

H. Keith Brodie
"Should be read by every psychiatry resident and every clinical psychology intern. It belongs in the library of every psychotherapist."

Details from Seller

• ISBN: 0465021476
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Pub. Date: January 1980
• Condition:
• Attributes: First Edition, Dust Jacket

Comments from the Seller: New York 1980 Cloth Stated First Good in Very Good jacket 6x9. PSY 023131 Stated first edition. Brown cloth hard cover, very solid and the text is clean and bright. Defects: tiny nick in cloth top edge of back board next to the spine, another longer bare patch along bottom edge of the front board away from the spine, subtle warps to both boards, and two small dents in front fore edge. The jacket is whole and clean, with a few scattered nicks around its edges.