A History of Existential Psychology

Zoltán Kőváry, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, litterateur, linguist and expert in existential counseling. He is an associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. His main research interests are in the history and theory of existential psychology and depth psychologies, eco-psychology, the psychology of creativity and psychobiographical research. He is an author of more than 70 articles, author and editor/coeditor of seven books and an editor of the journal Imago Budapest. As well as running his own private practice in Budapest as an existential therapist, he is the leader of a rock band and interested in ornithology.

1. Psychology and Existentialism

Part 1. Historical Grounding of Existential Psychology

2. Philosophy: Ontology and Philosophical Anthropology

3. The Contribution of 19th- to 20th-Century Lebensphilosophie, Theology and Far-East Philosophy

4. Philosophy: Epistemology

5. Literary Roots of Existential Psychology

6. The Psychological-Psychiatric Antecedents and Parallels of Existential Psychology: Psychoanalysis

7. Friends of the Family: The Contributions of Neo-Analytic Authors and Humanistic Psychoanalysts

8. Bridges between Psychoanalysis and Existential-Humanistic Psychology

9. Phenomenological Psychiatry, Anthropological Trends and Geisteswissenschaftlich Psychology

Part 2. The Schools of Existential Psychology

10. Daseinsanalysis

11. Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

12. The Existential-Humanistic School of Psychology

13. The Existential-Phenomenological School of Psychology

14. Leopold Szondi’s Fate Analysis: The Lost “Existential-Anancological” School of Psychology