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Existential Psychology Books
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Man’s Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 722,674 ratings — published 1946
Man's Search for Himself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,639 ratings — published 1953
The Discovery of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,020 ratings — published 1984
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 12,809 ratings — published 2008
The Schopenhauer Cure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 26,273 ratings — published 2000
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 6,407 ratings — published 1980
Freedom and Destiny (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 273 ratings — published 1981
The Meaning of Anxiety (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 632 ratings — published 1977
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 13,300 ratings — published 1973
Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 95 ratings — published 1958
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 23,845 ratings — published 2001
I and Thou (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 11,249 ratings — published 1923
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,893 ratings — published 1960
Existential psychology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 433 ratings — published 1956
The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,623 ratings — published 1969
Skills in Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)
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avg rating 4.35 — 100 ratings — published 2011
The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 907 ratings — published 1962
The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,678 ratings — published 1946
Love and Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,600 ratings — published 1969
The Psychology of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published 1994
The Cry for Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 399 ratings — published 1991
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 4,361 ratings — published 1974
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 81,107 ratings — published 1956
The Search for Existential Identity: Patient-Therapist Dialogues in Humanistic Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 253 ratings — published 1976
The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 71 ratings — published 1978
A Different Existence: Principles of Phenomenological Psychopathology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 33 ratings — published 1972
Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 579 ratings — published 1951
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 16,849 ratings — published 1961
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,532 ratings — published 1958
The Courage to Create (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,676 ratings — published 1975
Living in Paradox: The Theory and Practice of Contextual Existentialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2008
Knots (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,445 ratings — published
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 1,462 ratings — published
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 61,727 ratings — published 1994
A Matter of Death and Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 6,772 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 7,383 ratings — published 2017
Filosofi Teras (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 7,697 ratings — published 2018
The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.83 — 12 ratings — published
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published 2015
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 35,937 ratings — published 1989
Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 112 ratings — published 2000
Analisis Eksistensial Untuk Psikologi & Psikiatri
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avg rating 3.72 — 25 ratings — published 2002
Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 20 ratings — published 1979
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 473,856 ratings — published 1984
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,109,420 ratings — published 1942
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 11,402 ratings — published 2015
The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues In Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, 1st Edition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 1998
Toward a Psychology of Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 5,836 ratings — published 1961
The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,398 ratings — published 1993
The Ultimate Colin Wilson: Writings on Mysticism, Consciousness and Existentialism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 40 ratings — published
“Evo nekih tipičnih ciljeva: ''nametanje svojih ideoloških uvjerenja'', ''dokazivanje da sam (ili sam bio) u pravu'', ''pokazivanje sposobnim'', ''uspinjanje na hijerarhijskoj ljestvici'', ''izbjegavanje odgovornosti'' (ili, brat blizanac toga cilja, ''preuzimanje zasluga za tuđa djela''), ''napredovanje'', ''privlačenje pozornosti'', ''pobrinuti se da me svi vole'', ''ubiranje plodova mučeništva'', ''opravdavanje vlastitoga cinizma'', ''racionaliziranje svojeg antisocijalnog držanja'', ''umanjivanje značenja sukoba koji se upravo odvija'', ''podržavanje svoje naivnosti'', ''prenaglašavanje svoje ranjivosti'', ''prikazivati se svecem'' ili (a ovaj je osobito podmukao) ''pobrinuti se da za sve uvijek bude krivo moje nevoljeno dijete''. Sve su ovo primjeri onoga što je sunarodnjak Sigmunda Freuda, manje poznati austrijski psiholog Alfred Adler nazvao ''životnim lažima''.
Osoba koja živi s nekom životnom laži pokušava manipulirti stvarnošću pomoću percepcije, misli i djelovanja tako što samo usko zadanu i unaprijed određenu rezultatau dopušta postojanje. Kada tako živimo, onda svjesno ili nesvjesno temeljimo svoj život na dvije premise. Prva glasi da je naše trenutno znanje nesumnjivo dovoljno da odredimo što je dobro sve do u daleku vudućnost. Drug glasi da bi stvarnost, kada bi bil prepuštena sama sebi, bila nepodnošljiva. Prva je pretpostavka filozofski neopravdana. Naime, ono čemu trenutno težite možda nije vrijedno postizanja, baš kao što ono što sada radite može biti pogrješno. Druga je premisa još gora. Vrijedi samo ako je stvarnost u sebi nepodnošljiva i istodobno nešto čime možete uspješno manipulirati i izvrtati. Takav govor i razmišljanje zahtijeva aroganciju i uvjerenost koju je engleski pjesnik John Milton genijalno poistovjetio s arogancijom i samouvjerenošću Sotone, najvišega Božjeg anđela koji je tako spektakularno zastranio. Razumska sposobnost opasno naginje oholosti: ''ono što ja znam jest sve što treba znati''. Oholost se zaljubljuje u vlastite tvorevine i nastoji ih apsolutizirati.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Osoba koja živi s nekom životnom laži pokušava manipulirti stvarnošću pomoću percepcije, misli i djelovanja tako što samo usko zadanu i unaprijed određenu rezultatau dopušta postojanje. Kada tako živimo, onda svjesno ili nesvjesno temeljimo svoj život na dvije premise. Prva glasi da je naše trenutno znanje nesumnjivo dovoljno da odredimo što je dobro sve do u daleku vudućnost. Drug glasi da bi stvarnost, kada bi bil prepuštena sama sebi, bila nepodnošljiva. Prva je pretpostavka filozofski neopravdana. Naime, ono čemu trenutno težite možda nije vrijedno postizanja, baš kao što ono što sada radite može biti pogrješno. Druga je premisa još gora. Vrijedi samo ako je stvarnost u sebi nepodnošljiva i istodobno nešto čime možete uspješno manipulirati i izvrtati. Takav govor i razmišljanje zahtijeva aroganciju i uvjerenost koju je engleski pjesnik John Milton genijalno poistovjetio s arogancijom i samouvjerenošću Sotone, najvišega Božjeg anđela koji je tako spektakularno zastranio. Razumska sposobnost opasno naginje oholosti: ''ono što ja znam jest sve što treba znati''. Oholost se zaljubljuje u vlastite tvorevine i nastoji ih apsolutizirati.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“The dispersion of the daimonic by means of impersonality has serious and destructive effects. In New York City, it is not regarded as strange that the anonymous human beings secluded in single-room occupancies are so often connected with violent crime and drug addiction. Not that the anonymous individual in New York is alone: he sees thousands of other people every day, and he knows all the famous personalities as they come, via TV, into his single room. He knows their names, their smiles, their idiosyncrasies; they bandy about in a “we're-all-friends-together” mood on the screen which invites him to join them and subtly assumes that he does join them. He knows them all. But he himself is never known. His smile is unseen; his idiosyncrasies are important to no-body; his name is unknown. He remains a foreigner pushed on and off the subway by tens of thousands of other anonymous foreigners. There is a deeply depersonalizing tragedy involved in this. The most severe punishment Yahweh could inflict on his people was to blot out their name. “Their names,” Yahweh proclaims, “shall be wiped out of the book of the living.”
This anonymous man's never being known, this aloneness, is transformed into loneliness, which may then become daimonic possession. For his self-doubts—“I don't really exist since I can't affect anyone” —eat away at his innards; he lives and breathes and walks in a loneliness which is subtle and insidious. It is not surprising that he gets a gun and trains it on some passer-by—also anonymous to him. And it is not surprising that the young men in the streets, who are only anonymous digits in their society, should gang together in violent attacks to make sure their assertion is felt.
Loneliness and its stepchild, alienation, can become forms of demon possession. Surrendering ourselves to the impersonal daimonic pushes us into an anonymity which is also impersonal; we serve nature’s gross purposes on the lowest common denominator, which often means with violence.”
― Love and Will
This anonymous man's never being known, this aloneness, is transformed into loneliness, which may then become daimonic possession. For his self-doubts—“I don't really exist since I can't affect anyone” —eat away at his innards; he lives and breathes and walks in a loneliness which is subtle and insidious. It is not surprising that he gets a gun and trains it on some passer-by—also anonymous to him. And it is not surprising that the young men in the streets, who are only anonymous digits in their society, should gang together in violent attacks to make sure their assertion is felt.
Loneliness and its stepchild, alienation, can become forms of demon possession. Surrendering ourselves to the impersonal daimonic pushes us into an anonymity which is also impersonal; we serve nature’s gross purposes on the lowest common denominator, which often means with violence.”
― Love and Will
