RESOURCES

Insights for the Curious

The work of therapy often extends beyond our sessions. For those looking to engage more deeply with their own process, consider these focal points for clinical progress:

Self-Awareness & Personal Autonomy: Working to become more engaged in your life via self-awareness and personal autonomy.

Reducing Regret: Focusing on the acceptance of "what is," and making choices aimed at reducing regret or "existential guilt."

Anxiety as Potential: Learning to use anxiety as an opportunity for potential and awareness, rather than just a limitation.

The "Here and Now": Existential psychotherapy is deeply rooted in the "here and now," shifting the focus to how you inhabit your current existence.


Suggested Reading

These works offer a deeper exploration into the themes of choice, anxiety, and the human condition. They serve as intellectual companions to the work we do in the room.

Foundations & Perspectives

  • Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom

  • Staring at the Sun by Irvin Yalom

  • The Meaning of Anxiety by Rollo May

  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

  • The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard

  • The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom

  • Man’s Search for Himself by Rollo May

  • Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

  • Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

  • Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

  • Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrative & Fiction Illustrations

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

  • The Stranger by Albert Camus

  • The Plague by Albert Camus

  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  • The Trial by Franz Kafka

  • The Iliad by Homer

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  • Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom

  • Blindness by José Saramago

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

  • Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre