After Psychotherapy– Essays and Thoughts on Existential Therapy

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by Miles Groth PhD

The seven essays were written between 1989 and 2007 and published in peer-reviewed journals between 1995 and 2008, with the exception of “Eros in Existential Analysis,” which was given as an invited lecture at the annual International Human Science Research Conference at Ramapo College. All have been revised for this collection. The Background of Contemporary Existential Psychotherapy was given in 1999 as a contribution to the Wagner College Conference on Existential Psychotherapy, hosted by the author, and appeared that year in The Humanistic Psychologist, the journal of Division 32 (Humanistic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. Existential Psychotherapy Today provides background for the conference presentation and supplements its contents with references to the literature on existential psychotherapy up to that time. It appeared in 2000 in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry. Taken together they provide an historical context for the form of therapy known as existential analysis. “Existential Therapy on Heideggerian Principles” was given at a Conference on “Heidegger and Psychotherapy” for the Society for Existential Analysis, at Regent’s College, London, and published that year in the society’s journal. “Human Being and Existence: The Beginnings of an Existential Psychology” is the most ambitious of the papers in its attempt to review the principal theoretical idea of existential analysis. “Therapeutic Revalidation in Existential Analysis” was first published in Existential Analysis 13(1), 2002, pp. 144-158 (the new title of the journal of the Society for Existential Analysis at Regent’s College, London). It is a discussion of what I take to be the central therapeutic goal of existential analysis. “Authenticity in Existential Analysis” and “Eros in Existential Analysis” represent further developments of my view of therapeutic practice from an existential perspective. “Authenticity in Existential Analysis” was published in Existential Analysis 19(1), 2008, pp. pp. 81-101. Notes on Therapeutic Phenomenology are recent occasional thoughts on what comes after psychotherapy including existential analysis.