Becker, Rank, and Existential Psychotherapy

By Kirk Schneider, PhD

PsychologyToday.com
May 22, 2023

Kirk Schneider has a recent article on the topic of Ernest Becker, Otto Rank and Psychotherapy as “an intimate trio.”

Key points:

  • We must understand our relationship to existence, not only to our parents, culture, cognition, or physiology.
  • Life-enhancing anxiety is the ability to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.
  • A key result of life-enhancing anxiety is awe-based consciousness—a sense of adventure toward all living.

Read the whole article on Kirk’s PsychologyToday blog, Awakening to Awe.

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