After Psychotherapy: Essays and Thoughts on Existential Therapy (Miles Groth, You Can Help Publishing, 2017)

The seven essays were written between 1989 and 2007 and published in peer-reviewed journals between 1995 and 2008, with the exception of "Eros in Existential Analysis," which was given as an invited lecture at the annual International Human Science Research Conference at Ramapo College. All have been revised for this collection. The concluding chapter contains a series of notes on therapeutic phenomenology from 2015-2016 on the existential approach to therapy. (amazon) (kindle 2018-12-16)

   About the Author

Originally trained as a psychoanalyst, and now an existential therapist practising in Manhattan, New York, Professor Groth sets out an historical perspective that few contemporary therapists would be aware of. Influenced by Martin Heidegger, Medard Boss, Thomas Szasz, and R.D. Laing, Professor Groth confronts the significant challenges of a psychotherapy that has largely lost its way due to having succumbed to medicalisation, psychiatric and behavioural reductionism. He reveals the original core ideas of existential therapy, and makes suggestions about how, with integrity, it might survive and flourish into the future. Professor Groth has lectured and presented seminars for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in Australia, Canada, Hungary and the United States. Since 1994, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Wagner College in New York where he is full professor. (amazon)