A prestigious, original title co-authored by Rollo May, one of the best selling American fathers of existential psychology. This long awaited text in existential psychology presents a practical, integrative approach to the discipline especially for the training clinician. Three broad dimensions are emphasized: its literary, philosophical, and psychological heritage, its recent and future trends, and its therapeutic applications.

The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

May, Rollo

Schneider, Kirk, J.

Mental Health

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

The author is a psychologist with the Center for Existential Therapy in San Francisco. He writes for a general audience. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Paradoxical Self

Psychology & Counseling

Da Capo Press

The Paradoxical Self explores the following psychological questions: Why do so many of us develop extremist psychological patterns, from withdrawal to aggression, friendship to enmity? Why do people vicariously live out their extremes through the actions of others? What can we do to transform these extremes in order to live vital and creative lives? Drawing on the vast literature of existential psychology, Dr. Schneider develops what he calls the paradox principle, based on the assumptions that human experience spans a continuum from constriction to expansion, the former characterized by the capacity to yield and focus, the latter by the capacity to assert and incorporate and that people become dysfunctional, polarized, or excessive when they fear either of these capacities. After applying his model to a variety of dysfunctional syndromes, Dr. Schneider goes on to depict its relevance for psychological health.

The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature

Humanities Pr

The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice

The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology is a landmark in the resurgent field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. Their range of topics is far-reaching--from the historical, theoretical, and methodological, to the spiritual, psychotherapeutic, and multicultural. Students and professionals are looking for the fuller, deeper, and more personal psychological orientation that this Handbook promotes.

Bugental, James F. T.

Pierson, J. Fraser

Sage Publications, Inc.

Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation

Awakening to Awe is a self-help meditation on an alternative―and growing―spiritual movement. This is a movement comprised of people who refuse the "quick-fix" model for healing, whether that model entails popping pills, indulging in material comforts, or adhering to doctrinal dogmas. By contrast, the movement about which Schneider writes is composed of people who have developed the capacity to experience the humility and wonder, or in short, awe, of life deeply lived. In particular, this book highlights the stories of people who through the cultivation of awe have transformed their lives. For example, readers will discover how awe transformed the life of an ex-gang member into a beloved and productive gang mediator, an ex-drug addict into a communally conscious healer, and a sufferer of stage three cancer into a contemplative and spiritual seeker. The book will also inform readers about the challenges and joys of awe-based child-raising, education, humor, political activism, and aging. Drawing on the philosophy of Schneider's earlier work, the acclaimed Rediscovery of Awe, Awakening to Awe tells the down-to-earth stories of a quiet yet emerging revolution in the transformation of lives.

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Awakening to Awe is a self-help meditation on one of the most profound experiences of living-the sense of awe. Awe is the humility and wonder-amazement-before creation. It is also an attitude that can be both healing and life-transforming, particularly in our "awe-depleted" age. Through an in depth focus on people's life stories (including that of the author), this volume explores the nature and power of awe for individuals, for societies, and for the potential course of humanity.

In Existential Humanistic Therapy, Kirk J. Schneider and Orah T. Krug discuss the history, theory, and practice of this distinctly American expression of existential therapy. Existential humanistic therapy welds the European existential philosophical heritage of self-inquiry, struggle, and responsibility with the American tradition of spontaneity, optimism, and practicality. Contrary to its common reputation as a purely intellectual form of therapy, this approach emphasizes not only the concepts of freedom and responsibility, but experiential reflection, in which clients experience their problems in session through a process of checking in with their affective and bodily sensations. The goal of this therapy is to help clients free themselves from self-imposed limitations and come to a deeper understanding of their authentic life goals, versus those imposed by others or by a rigid sense of self. This approach, which is becoming increasingly integrative, is applicable in a wide array of settings and diagnostic populations and, because of its emphasis on key contextual factors, is increasingly influential on the therapeutic profession as a whole. In this book, Dr. Schneider and Dr. Krug present and explore this approach, its theory, history, the therapy process, primary change mechanisms, empirical basis, and future developments. This essential primer to existential humanistic therapy, amply illustrated with case examples, is perfect for graduate students studying theories of therapy and counseling as well as for seasoned practitioners interested in understanding this approach.

Existential-Humanistic Therapy (Theories of Psychotherapy)

Amer Psychological Assn

Why do so many of us develop extremist psychological patterns, from withdrawal to aggression, friendship to enmity? Why do people vicariously live out their extremes through the actions of others? What can we do to transform these extremes in order to live vital and creative lives?Drawing on the vast literature of existential psychology, Dr. Schneider develops what he calls the paradox principle, based on the assumptions that human experience spans a continuum from constriction to expansion. The former is characterized by the capacity to yield and focus, the latter by the capacity to assert and incorporate. People become dysfunctional, polarized, or excessive, says Schneider, when they fear either of these capacities.After applying his model to a variety of dysfunctional syndromes, Schneider goes on to depict its relevance for psychological health. He ties his model directly to subjects' personal histories and shows its pertinence to creativity, physical health, religious and social organizations, child rearing, and psychology.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Humanities Press

The Polarized Mind: Why It's Killing Us and What We Can Do about It

What do a school shooter, a corporate swindler, and a bullheaded ideologue have in common?-They all converge on what author Kirk Schneider terms "the polarized mind." The polarized mind, which is the fixation on one point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view, is killing us-personally, politically, and environmentally. Drawing from the standpoint of existential psychology, this book details the basis for the polarized mind, how it has ravaged leaders and their cultures throughout history (up to and including our own time), and steps we urgently need to take to address the problem. These steps combine contemporary insights with centuries of cross-cultural, awe-inspired wisdom.

University Professors Press

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The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective

The Paradoxical Self

The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature

The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice

The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice

Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation

Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation

Existential-Humanistic Therapy (Theories of Psychotherapy)

The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature

The Polarized Mind: Why It's Killing Us and What We Can Do about It