Existential Reading List - Existential-Humanistic Institute

Recommended E-H Therapy Textbooks

Existential–Humanistic Therapy, 3rd Ed.

Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, and Orah T. Krug

American Psychological Association
2025

Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy

Edited By Kirk J. Schneider

Routledge
2008

Supervision Essentials for Existential–Humanistic Therapy

Edited By Orah Krug, PhD and Kirk J Schneider, Phd

American Psychological Association
2016

APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology

Edited by Louis Hoffman

APA
2025

The Evidence-Based Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy

Edited by Louis Hoffman and Veronica Lac

APA 2025

Humanistic Approaches to Mulitculturalism and Diverstiy

Edited ByLouis Hoffman, Heatherlyn Cleare-Hoffman, Nathaniel Granger, Jr., David St. John

Routledge
2019

The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy

Editor(s):Emmy van Deurzen, Erik Craig, Alfried Längle, Kirk J. Schneider, Digby Tantam, Simon du Plock

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
2019

The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, 2nd Ed.

Edited by Kirk J. Schneider, J. Fraser Pierson, and James F. T. Bugental

Sage Publications
2016

Skills in Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy, 2nd Ed

Emmy Van Deurzen & Martin Adams

Sage Publications
2016

Recommended Existential Reading List

Becker, E. (1973). Denial of death. New York: Free Press.
Bugental, J. F. T. (1965, 1981). The Search for Authenticity — An Existential-Analytic Approach to Psychotherapy. New York: Irvington Publishers. (Out of print)
Bugental, J. F. T. (1976). The search for existential identity. Jossey-Bass.
Bugental, J. F. T. (1978). Psychotherapy and Process — The Fundamentals of an Existential-Humanistic Approach. Addison Wesley.
Bugental, J. F. T. (1980). The Psychotherapy Handbook — The A to Z Guide to More than 250 Different Therapies in Use Today. Edited by Richie Herink. A Meridian Book, New American Library Times Mirror.
Bugental, J. F. T. (1987). The Art of the Psychotherapist — by JF Bugental, Ph.D. W.W. Norton.
Bugental, J. F. T. (1990). Intimate Journeys — Stories from Life Changing Therapy. Jossey-Bass.
Bugental, J.F. T. (1999). Psychotherapy isn’t what you think. Zeig, Tucker & Co., Inc.
Cain, D. J., & Seeman, J. (Eds.). (2016). Humanistic psychotherapies: Handbook of research and practice. (2nd Edition). American Psychological Association.
Cooper, M. (2016). Existential therapies. (2nd Edition) Sage Publications.
Corsini, R. J., (Ed.). (2008). Current Psychotherapies. (8th Edition). Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Frankl, V. (1959). From Death-Camp to Existentialism — A Psychiatrist’s Path to a New Therapy. Lasch, I. (Trans). Beacon Press.
Friedman, M. S. (1985). The Healing Dialogue in Psychotherapy. Jason Aronson.
Gardner, H. (2006). Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books.
Gendlin, E. T. (1978). Focusing. Everest House.
Glasser, W. (1998). The Quality School. (revised edition). HarperPerennial.
Glasser, W. (1998). The Quality School Teacher. (revised edition). HarperPerennial.
Hoffman, L., Cleare-Hoffman, H., Granger, Jr., N., St. John, D. (Eds.) (2019). Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity. University Professors Press.
Perspectives on Existence and Difference
Hoffman, L., Yang M., Kaklauskas, F. J., Chan, A. & Mansilla, M. (Eds.). (2019). Existential Psychology East-West. (Vol 1 Revised Edition). University Professors Press.
Hoffman, L., Mansilla, M., Dias J., Yang M., Moats M., & Claypool, T. (Eds.). (2019). Existential Psychology East-West. (Vol 2 Revised Edition). University Professors Press.
Jourard, S. M. (1971). The Transparent Self. D. Van Nostrand Company.
Koestenbaum, P. (1978). The New Image of the Person — The Theory and Practice of Clinical Philosophy. Greenwood Press.
Kopp, S. B. (1972). If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him — The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients. Bantam Books.
Laing, R. D. (1967). The Politics of Experience. Ballantine Books.
Laing, R. D. (1969). The divided self: An existential study in sanity and madness. Penguin.
Maslow, Abraham H. (1962). Toward a Psychology of Being. D. Van Nostrand Company.
Maslow, Abraham H. (1971). The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. The Viking Press.
May, R., (1953). Man’s Search for Himself. A Signet Book, The New American Library.
May, R., (1983). The Discovery of Being — Writings in Existential Psychology. W.W. Norton.
May, R., & Schneider, K. J. (Eds.). (1995). The Psychology of Existence — An Integrative Clinical Perspective. McGraw Hill.
May, R., Angel, E., & Ellenberger, H. (Eds.). (1958). Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology. Basic Books.
Mendelowitz, E. & Schneider, K. (2008). Existential Psychotherapy. In R. Corsini & D. Wedding (Eds.) Current psychotherapies (8th ed.) (pp. 295-326). Thompson/Brooks Cole.
Moustakas, C. E. (Ed.). (1956). The Self — Explorations and Personal Growth. Harper Publishing.
Moustakas, C. (1965). The Authentic Teacher:Sensitivity and awareness in the classroom. Howard A. Doyle.
Palmer, P. J. (2007). The Courage to Teach. (10th edition). Jossey-Bass.
Rogers, C. R. (1961). On Becoming a Person — A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy. Houghton Mifflin.
Rogers, C. R. (1980). A Way of Being. Houghton Mifflin.
Rogers, C. R. & Freiberg, H. J. (1994). Freedom to Learn. (3rd edition). Prentice Hall.
Schneider, K. J. & May, R. (1995). The psychology of existence: An integrative, clinical perspective. McGraw-Hill.
Schneider, K. J. (1999). The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature. Humanity Books.
Schneider, K. J., Bugental, J.F.T. & Pierson, J.F. (Eds.). (2014) The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice. Second Edition. Sage Publications.
Schneider, K. J. (2004). Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, Mystery and the Fluid Center of Life. Paragon House.
Schneider, K. J. (Ed.). (2008). Existential-integrative psychotherapy: Guideposts to the core of practice. Routledge.
Schneider, K. J. (2009). Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation. Jason Aronson.
Schneider, K. J. & Krug, O. T. (2025, 3rd Ed.). Existential-humanistic Therapy (Theories of Psychotherapy Series). American Psychological Association.
Schneider, K. J. (2013). The Polarized Mind: Why It’s Killing Us and What We Can Do About It. University Professors Press.
Schneider, K. J. (2020). The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook to Social Healing. University Professors Press.
Shabahangi, N.R.(2014) Ambiguity of Suffering. Eldership Academy Press.
Shapiro, Jerrold (2016) Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Therapy. Sage Publications.
Welwood, J. (Ed.). (1983). Awakening the Heart: East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship. Shambhala Publications.
Yalom, I. (1980). Existential psychotherapy. Basic Books.
Yalom, I. (1989). Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy. Basic Books.
Yalom, I. (2002). The gift of therapy. HarperCollins Publishers.