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The Existential Moment-Kirk Schneider Reviews the New Book: Toward the Turning

At a time when our identities are increasingly reduced to caricatures and simplistic cycles of polarizing tit-for-tat, EHI board member Scott Gibbs offers a formidable challenge to the way we understand our fractured world. Scott typically authors EHI’s monthly Existential Moment, but this month I am stepping in as a guest contributor to review his passionate, brilliant, and methodical new book, Toward the Turning: Rethinking the meaning of 9/11, the clash of civilizations, and a postmodern world.

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August 4, 2026

Recent E-H Therapy Articles

Recommended New Articles on E-H Therapy To Be or Not to Be: Engage with Life or Retreat from It By Bob Edelstein, LMFTPsychologyToday on March 13, 2024 Bob Edelstein has

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March 14, 2024

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.

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May 23, 2023
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New Book by Kirk Schneider Released Feb 1st!

Life-Enhancing Anxiety makes a bold proposal: It is not less anxiety that we need today, but more, at least of a certain kind of anxiety. Life-enhancing anxiety is the invigorating degree of anxiety needed to become passionately engaged, ethically attuned, and creatively enriched. Set against our anxiety-avoidant times, life-enhancing anxiety enables us to “live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.”

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January 31, 2023
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New Blog Post From Kirk Schneider on Life Enhancing Anxiety

Kirk Schneider, PhD, Psychologist, EHI President and Instructor, has a new article on his PsychologyToday blog, Awakening to Awe.

The post is entitled, “What the World Needs Now Is ‘Life-Enhancing’ Anxiety” in which he posits that “one of our great problems today is too little of a certain kind of anxiety.”

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August 15, 2022
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New Book by Ken Bradford

EHI Congratulates Ken Bradford on the Release of his Latest Book! Opening Yourself: The psychology and yoga of self-liberation The human predicament is such that we continually strive to fill

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December 8, 2021
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Recommended Book: The Depolarizing of America

A follow up to Schneider’s groundbreaking book, The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America is an essential read for those who are striving for social healing and positive collective change.
Author Quote: “The book draws on my experience with humanistically oriented conflict mediation groups and provides practical, structured formats for both laypeople and professionals to use in a variety of settings, ” Kirk Schneider
Release Date: June 15, 2020
Author: Dr Kirk Schneider
Publisher: University Professors Press

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May 19, 2020

The Mystery of Being

By Ed Mendelowitz Not understanding although they have heard, they are like the deaf. The proverb bears witness to them: “Present yet absent.” Heraclitus Let us then know our limits;

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April 27, 2007

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