Emmy Van Deurzen - The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy

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Emmy van Deurzen (editor in chief)
Erik Craig
Alfried Lngle
Kirk J. Schneider
Digby Tantam
Simon du Plock

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To all existential therapists worldwide, past, present, and future.

In celebration of what it is to be human,
In appreciation of the thinkers who came before us,
and with gratitude to those who will take up the challenges after us.

Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, psychologist, and psychotherapist who has worked as an existential therapist since 1973, both in France and the United Kingdom and has lectured on existential therapy around the world since the 1980s. She has been a professor with five universities and has contributed 17 books and hundreds of papers and chapters to the literature with her work being translated into many languages. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis, the School of Psychology and Psychotherapy at Regents and also the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy in London, where she is Principal. Her best sellers include Everyday Mysteries (Routledge), Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy (Wiley), and Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in Practice (Sage).

Erik Craig is an existential psychologist, author, and independent scholar and practitioner. He has published over 60 articles and edited two groundbreaking journal issues on Daseinsanalysis and existential depth psychotherapy. Having practiced for years in New England he now lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is most interested in the intricacies of therapeutic relating, the analysis of dreams, and human affect and attachment. Having served on the fulltime faculties of several graduate psychology programs, he now lectures and trains internationally. A past president of several psychological societies, he is currently president of the New Mexico Psychoanalytic Society.

Alfried Lngle, born in 1951 in Austria, has a private practice in psychotherapy, general medicine and clinical psychology in Vienna (since 1982). He had a close collaboration with Viktor Frankl from 1981 to 1991. Alfied was a founder (1983) of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna). He is also a faculty member and professor of Applied Psychology at the Moscows HSEuniversity (since 2004), at Viennas Sigmund Freud university (2011), and Docent at the psychological department of the university of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is a founder of the stateapproved training school of ExistentialAnalytical Psychotherapy, Vice President of the International Federation of Psychotherapy (20022010), and was, until 2017, President of theInternationalSociety for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.

Kirk J. Schneider is a psychologist and leading spokesperson forcontemporary existentialhumanistic psychology. A protg of Rollo May and James Bugental, Kirk is past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, president of the ExistentialHumanistic Institute, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University. Kirk is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has authored or edited 12 books, includingExistentialIntegrative Psychotherapy and(with Orah Krug) ExistentialHumanistic Therapy.

Digby Tantam is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. He has trained in family therapy, group analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and more recently in existential therapy. He has practiced and supervised other therapists in one or other of these modalities since 1977. He is a Consultant Psychotherapist and Psychiatrist, Dilemma Consultancy Ltd. He is the author ofseveral hundred scientific papers and a dozen books, most recentlyThe Interbrain published in 2018, (Jessica Kingsley).

Simon du Plock is Head of the Faculty of PostQualification and Professional Doctorates at the Metanoia Institute, London, UK, where he leads joint PhD, DPsych, and DCPsych research programs with Middlesex University, with whom he is a professor. He lectures internationally and has authored over 80 texts and journal papers. He has edited Existential Analysis, the journal of the British Society for Existential Analysis, since 1993. In 2006 he became the first Western therapist to be made an Honorary Member of the East European Association for Existential Therapy in recognition of his contribution to the development of collaboration between East and West European existential psychotherapy.