Contents
About the author
Preface
Chapter 1: What is existential psychology?
Chapter 2: Happiness and suffering
Chapter 3: Love and aloneness
Chapter 4: Adversity and success: The role of crisis for human development
Chapter 5: Death anxiety and life commitment
Chapter 6: Free choice and the obligations of your life reality
Chapter 7: To find the meaning of life in a chaotic world
Appendix A: Existential writers and their major works
Appendix B: Existential therapy and counselling
Bibliography
Index
Bo Jacobsen is professor at the Centre for Researching Existence and Society at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology. His research specialisation is in Existential Psychology. He holds two doctorate degrees and has been in charge for several research projects on psychological and existential problems for instance an intensive qualitative study on the psychological problems and existential reflections of cancer patients. he is also a practicing psychologist and an existential psychotherapist and supervisor. He has authored numerous articles and books on psychological and existential issues, all written in an incisive and engaging style. he has lectured on existential psychology and psychotherapy in London and throughout Continental Europe. His mission is to develop the human and existential dimensions of psychology and psychotherapy. In this way he aims to stimulate human beings to develop their openness and reach out for each other.
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