{"product_id":"existential-psychotherapy-9780465021475","title":"Existential Psychotherapy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of existential psychotherapy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1980, \u003ci\u003eExistential Psychotherapy \u003c\/i\u003eis widely considered to be the foundational text in its field-- the first to offer a methodology for helping patients to develop more adaptive responses to life's core existential dilemmas. In this seminal work, American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom finds the essence of existential psychotherapy and gives it a coherent structure, synthesizing its historical background, core tenets, and usefulness to the practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized around what Yalom identifies as the four \"ultimate concerns of life\"--death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness--the book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifest in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from clinical experience, empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom provides an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatibility of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that have surprised and enlightened generations of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrvin D. Yalom, MD\u003c\/b\u003e, is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundations' Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Nietzsche Wept\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction); \u003ci\u003eLove's Executioner\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir; \u003ci\u003eBecoming Myself\u003c\/i\u003e, a group therapy novel; \u003ci\u003eThe Schopenhauer Cure\u003c\/i\u003e; and the classic textbooks \u003ci\u003eInpatient Group Psychotherapy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExistential Psychotherapy\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books. He lives in Palo Alto, California. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629986877714,"sku":"9780465021475","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_afc709f3-1e2e-46c1-abeb-d5644dd00a69.jpg?v=1732739195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/existential-psychotherapy-9780465021475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}