Applications of Existential Psychology

Zoltán Kőváry Ph.D is a clinical psychologist, litterateur, linguist, and expert in existential counselling. 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/co-editor 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.

Part 1. Conditio Humana: The Main Themes of Existential Psychology

1. Characteristics and Modes of Being-in-the-world

2. The Enigma of Anxiety

3. Freedom and Responsibility

4. Boundary Situations and Crises

5. “To Thine Own Self be True.”: Choices, Authentic Self and Destiny

6. I and Thou: The existential of Being-with and the Question of Love

7. Homo Patiens: Suffering and Searching for Meaning

8. “Time Swallows up your Life.” Time, Finitude and Being-Towards-Death

9. Homo Creativus

10. The Unconscious God and Überwelt

Part 2. The Applications of Existential Approach in Psychology

11. Dream and Existence

12. Pathic Existence and the Questions of Psychopathology

13. Existential Psychology and Scientific Research

14. Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling: General Introduction and Daseinsanalysis

15. Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

16. Existential-Humanistic and Existential Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling

17. Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy and Counselling

18. Further Applications of Existential Psychology in this field, Existential Family and Group Therapies

Part 3. Existentialism and Psychology in the 21st Century

19. The Return of Existential view at the turn of the Millennium and the Beginning of the 21st

20. New Developments and Challenges