An Existential Approach to Human Development

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>his textbook reviews for the first time the thinking of six major existential philosophers; Søren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Jean-Paul Sartre Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir with respect to their ideas about human development. Martin Adams presents a philosophical and psychological analysis and critically evaluates the different ways that existential philosophy can illuminate the way we all strive for meaning and purpose in life. Written in a detailed well-structured manner this text offers a fundamentally different way to understand not only life in general but the practice of psychotherapy in particular.</span></p>