Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction - Paperback

by M. Guy Thompson (Author)

An introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and guiding the reader on how to incorporate these two disciplines, which may appear disparate on the surface, into their clinical and theoretical work.

Author Biography

M. Guy Thompson is the founder and Director of the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, and a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, USA. He is the author of Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity (2023) and The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (second edition, 2016), and the editor of The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance (2015).