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New Edition of Existential-Humanistic Therapy Textbook Arriving November 18th!

By Kirk Schneider and Orah Krug

“EH therapy blends the European heritage of self-inquiry, struggle, and responsibility with the American tradition of spontaneity, optimism, and practicality. This book helps therapists and trainees understand how to help people address critical life questions and attune to how clients relate to themselves and to others, appropriately reflecting back aspects of themselves that are evident but unnoticed.

New to this edition are significant updates to research and theory, including the work of Otto Rank, an often-overlooked pioneer in EH therapy, and new concepts like existential unconsciousness and life-enhancing anxiety. The cultivation of presence as a central component of the therapeutic relationship is also emphasized.”

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The Existential Moment: Working With the Cosmological Dimension

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes people chained in darkness, mistaking shadows on the wall for the whole of reality. Only by turning toward the light—toward what casts the shadows—can they begin to see the world as it truly is. In therapy, we often work in the shadows: the protections,  old narratives, and  self-world constructs that shape experience. Yet each of these is influenced

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The Existential Moment: Notice and Deepen

On September 10, 2025, under an open white tent at Utah Valley University, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was debating all comers in front of 3,000 people when everything changed. At 12:23 p.m., a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. Chaos erupted—screams, running, ducking, simple panic. The shock was immediate. In that rupture, spectacle gave way to death’s terror. For

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The Existential Moment—Existential-Integrative: Cognitive Empiricism

Collaboration is central in both CBT and Existential-Humanistic therapy—whether as co-investigators (CBT) testing ideas or as “fellow travelers” (E-H) exploring lived experience and meanings. Openness and curiosity likewise are central to both. Integration builds on this shared spirit by reframing CBT’s empirical approach through an E-H lens.

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EHI at Saybrook’s 2025 Community Learning Experience

EHI’s Kirk Schneider, PhD, EHI President and Nance Reynolds, PhD, EHI’s Clinical Committer Chair with Tyler Gamlen, PhD will be at the 2025 CLE! If you are a Saybrook Student, Alumni, or faculty please consider checking out these 2 events at the Saybrook 2025 Community Learning Experience in Los Angeles in August. This in-person event is an opportunity to build

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