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Presenters Announced for Fall Conference on Otto Rank!

EHI is excited to announce the following esteemed presenters will be joining us Nov 4 & 5, 2023 for “Unleashing Otto Rank: From Interpretation to Experience”

Robert Kramer,

Siebrecht Vanhooren,

Kirk Schneider,

Matthew Fox,

Marie Becker,

Ellen Handler Spitz,

Will Waddlington,

Ludwig Janus

Please save the date and join us for this trailblazing venture into the reawakened legacy of Freud’s unsung protégé and contemporary torchbearer.

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March 3, 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

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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E-H Consult Group Starts Friday-Opening

Our first E-H Therapy case consultation group of the year is starting February 4th. There is an opening-please reach out below if you are interested. Description of Working in the E-H Therapy Consultation Group This group is being led by Kirk Schneider, PhD and Stephanie Weissman, PsyD, both EHI instructors and psychologists with extensive experience in private practice. In this

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February 1, 2022
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CE Credits Approved for Jan 22nd Workshop w/ Kirk Schneider, PhD

Depolarizing Therapeutic Presence: Utilizing Concepts of the “Experiential Democracy Dialogue” to Help Therapists Reduce Polarization With Clients Developed and Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor: Kirk Schneider, PhD, Psychologist & EHI President Date: Saturday, January 22, 2021 Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Time Zone /Sign in to waiting room at 9:45am  Online: via Zoom and Zoom Breakout Rooms  3 CE hours available(live presentation participation). Fee: $18.50. Please contact us for more info regarding the course. Registration Fee: Cost: $35 General/Professional; $20 Student/Elder: $10 Economic Hardship/Equity;No one will be turned away due to lack of funds—please reach out to Michelle via contact form at

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January 4, 2022

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