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• Barrett, W. (1978).  The Illusion of Technique. New York:  Anchor.  (Describes a search for meaning in a technological civilization, moving from technique, through being, toward freedom)
• Barrett, W. (1958).  Irrational Man.  New York: Anchor.  (Situates existential philosophy in a historical and cultural context)
• Frankl, V. (1971). Man’s Search for Meaning.  New York:  Pocket Books.
• Kunz, G. (1998). The Paradox of Podiwer and Weakness:  Levinas and an Alternative Paradigm for Psychology.  Albany, New York:  91̽»¨NY.
• May, R. (1983). The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology.  New York:  Norton.
• May, R. (1979).  The Meaning of Anxiety.  (2nd Ed).  New York:  W.W. Norton.
• Rogers, C. (1951). Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory. London: Constable.
• Rogers, C. (1961). On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy. London: Constable.
• Valle, R. S. & Halling, S. (1989).  Existential-Phenomenological Perspectives in Psychology.  New York:  Plenum.  (Offers a readable selection of articles on a variety of issues in phenomenological psychology).
• Van den Berg, J. H.  (1972).  A Different Existence.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.  (An excellent introduction to the phenomenological approach to “psychopathology”).
• Yalom, I. D. (1980). Existential Psychotherapy.  New York:  Ballantine Books.
• Yalom, I. D. (2001). The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and their patients. New York: Harper Perennial.

The following is a more comprehensive list of authors and their works important to the existential and phenomenological traditions in psychology.  The marked items (*) are readings that give an overview of Existential Phenomenology.  The items marked (**) are frequently used as texts in courses.

Other Introductions to Existential-Phenomenological Thought:

• Becker, C.S.  (1992). Living and Relating: An Introduction to Phenomenology.  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage Publications.
• Friedman, M.  (Ed.)  (1973). The Worlds of Existentialism.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.
• Gantt, E. and Williams, R. editors (2002). Psychology for the Other:  Levinas and the Practice of Psychology.  Pittsburgh:  Duquesne University Press.
• Giorgi, A.  (1970). Psychology as a Human Science, a Phenomenologically Based Approach.  New York:  Harper & Row.  (Historical development of Psychology as a natural and as a human science).
• Giorgi, A.  et al (Eds). (1971; 1975; 1979; 1983).  Duquesne Studies in Phenomenological Psychology, Vols. I – IV.  Pittsburgh, PA:  Duquesne University Press.
• May, R.  (1967). Psychology and the Human Dilemma.  Princeton, NJ:  Van Nostrand.
• Moran, D.  (2000).  Introduction to Phenomenology.  London:  Routledge 
• Spinelli, E.  (1989).  The Interpreted World:  An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology.  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage.
• Stewart, D. & Mickunas, A.  (1990)  Exploring Phenomenology:  A Guide to the Field and its literature.  (2nd ed.)  Athens, OH:  Ohio University Press.

Classic Texts in Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy:

• Boss, M. (1982).  Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalyse.  New York:  De Capo.
• Buber, M. (1958).  I and Thou.  (2nd Ed.)  New York:  Scribner & Sons.  (Classic work on the spiritual dimensions of interpersonal relations).
• Buber, M. (1966).  The Knowledge of Man.  New York:  Harper Textbooks.
• Foucault, M.  (1965). Madness and Civilization.  New York:  Random House
• **Gadamer, H.  (1960/1995)  Truth and Method.  Trans.  Joel Weinsheimer and Donald Marshall.  New York:  Random House.
• Husserl, E.  (1911/1964).  Philosophy as a Rigorous Science in Lauer, Quentin.  Edmund Husserl.  Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy.  New York:  Harper and Row.
• Husserl, E.  (1983)  Ideaspertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to Phenomenological Philosophy, First Book.  Trans. F. Kersten.  Dordrecht:  Kluwer.
• **Heidegger, M.  (1956/1996).  Being and Time.  Trans.  Joan Stambaugh.  Albany:  91̽»¨NY
• Kierkegaard, S.  (1962)  Works of Love.  Glochester, MA:  Peter Smith.
• Kierkegaard, S.  (1941). The Sickness Unto Death.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.
• **Levinas, E.  (1985). Ethics and Infinity.  Pittsburgh, PA.  Duquesne University Press.
• Merleau-Ponty, M.  (1963). Phenomenology of perception.  New York:  Humanities Press.  (Difficult, but extremely penetrating reflections on human experience).
• **Merleau-Ponty, M.  (1964). The Primacy of Perception. Evanston, IL:  Northwestern University Press.
• Ricoeur, P.  (1950/1966).  Freedom and Nature:  The Voluntary and the Involuntary.  Trans.  Kohak, E.  Chicago:  Northwestern University Press
• Ricoeur, P.  (1970). Freud and Philosophy:  An essay on interpretation.  Trans.  Savage, D.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.
• Sartre, J.P.  (1956)  Being and Nothingness:  A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology.  Trans.  Barnes, H.  New York:  Washington Square Press.
• Scheler, M.  (1929/1954).  The Nature of Sympathy.  London:  Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Van Dusen, W.  (1972, 1981).  The Natural Depth in Man.  New York:  Harper & Row.

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy:

• Binswanger, L.  (1963). µþ±ð¾±²Ô²µ-¾±²Ô-³Ù³ó±ð-·É´Ç°ù±ô»å.  Trans.  Needleman, J.  New York: Harper and Row.
• Bugental, J.F.  (1987). The Art of the Psychotherapist.  New York:  Norton.
• *Cushman, P.  (1995). Constructing the Self, Constructing America:  A Cultural History of Psychotherapy.  Redding, MA:  Addison Wesley.
• Davidson, L.  (2003). Living Outside Mental Illness:  Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia.  New York:  New York University Press.
• Fierman, L.B.  (Ed).  (1965)  Effective Psychotherapy: The Contributions of Hellmuth Kaiser.  New York:  The Free Press.  (An implicitly existential interpretation of therapy and neurosis).
• Fischer, C.T. (1995). Individualizing Psychological Assessment.  Hillsdale, N.J.  Lawrence Erlbaum.  (An excellent book on phenomenological assessment).
• Friedman, M. (1985).The Healing Dialogue in Psychotherapy.  New York:  Aronson.
• Gantt, E. & Williams, R. (editors).  (2002)  Psychology for the Other.  Pittsburgh, PA:  Duquesne University Press.
• Gendlin, E.T. (1986) Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams.  Willmette, IL:  Chiron. 
• Hycner, R. (1991). Between person and person:  Toward a Dialogical Psychotherapy.  Highland, NY:  The Gestalt Journal.
• Kaplan, B. (1965). The Inner World of Mental Illness.   New York:  Harper & Row.  (The best selection of first hand accounts of “mental illness”).
• Kopp, S. (1976). If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him.  New York:  Bantam Books.
• Laing, R.D. (1969). The Divided Self.  New York:  Penguin Books.
• Laing, R.D.  (1972). The Politics of Experience.  New York:  Random House.
• **Levinas, E. (1969). Totality and Infinity.  Pittsburgh, PA.  Duquesne University Press.
• Rank, O.  (1978). Will Therapy.  New York:  Norton.
• Richardson, F., Fowers, B., and Guignon, C.  (1999). Re-envisioning Psychology:  Moral Dimensions of Theory and Practice.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• Spinelli, E.  (1994). Demystifying Psychotherapy.  London:  Constable.
• Spinelli, E.  (1997)  Tales of Un-Knowing.  New York:  New York University Press.
• Van Kaam (1966). The Art of Existential Counseling: A New Perspective in Psychotherapy.  Wilkes-Barre, PA:  Dimension Books. 
• *Wheelis, A. (1974). How People Change.  New York:  Harper & Row.

Explorations of Specific Topics & Qualitative Research:

• Agee, J.  (1974). Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.  New York:  Ballantine Books.
• Becker, E.  (1973). The Denial of Death.  New York:  The Free Press.
• Berger, J.  (1967). A Fortunate Man.  New York:  Pantheon
• Camac, P.M., Rhodes, J.E. & Yardley, L.  (2003). Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design.  Washington, DC:  American Psychology Association.
• Coles, R.  (1967-1978). Children of Crisis.  Vols. 1-5.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Co.
• Dahlberg, K., Drew,N. & Nystrom, M.  (2001). Reflective Lifeworld Research.  Stockholm:  Studentlitteratur.
• Egendorf, A. (1985) Healing From the War:  Trauma and transformation after the war.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.
• Eisley, L.  (1962). The Immense Journey.  New York:  Time Inc.
• Giorgi, A.   (1985). Phenomenology and Psychological Research.   Pittsburgh:  Duquesne University Press.
• Henry, J.  (1965).  Culture Against Man.  New York:  Random House.
• Henry, J.  (1973).  Pathways to Madness.  New York:  Random House.
• James, W.  (1961). Varieties of Religious Experience.  New York:  Collier Books.
• Kafka, F.  (1966). Letter to his Father.  New York:  Schocher.
• Karlsson, G.  (1995). Psychological Qualitative Research from a Phenomenological Perspective.  Stockholm:  Almqvist and Wiksell International.
• Knowles, R.T.  (1986). Human Development and Human Possibility:  Erikson in the Light of Heidegger.  Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America.
• Kuhn, T.  (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  Phoenix Books:  (Important for understanding Scientism). 
• Lewis, C.S.  (1976). A Grief Observed.  New York:  Bantam.
• Lifton, R.  (1983). The Life of the Self.  New York:  Basic Books.
• May, R.  (1994). The Courage to Create.  New York:  W.W. Norton.
• *May, R. (1979).  The Meaning of Anxiety.  (2nd Ed).  New York:  W.W. Norton.
• Mayeroff, M.  (1972). On Caring.  New York:  Harper & Row.
• Murray, E.L.  (Ed.)  (1987).  Imagination and Phenomenological Psychology.  Pittsburgh, PA:  Duquesne University Press.
• Richards, M.C.  (1964). Centering on Pottery, Poetry, and the Person.  Middleton, CT:  Wesleyan University Press.
• Romanyshyn, R. (1989). Technology as a Symptom and Dream.  New York:  Routledge.
• Rubin, L.  (1977). Worlds of pain.  New York;  Basic Books.
• Rubin, L.  (1981). Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self.  New York:  Harper & Row.
• Sass, L.A.  (1992). Madness and Modernism:  Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought.  New York:  Basic Books.
• Smith, J.A.  (Ed.).  (2003)  Qualitative Research in Psychology:  A practical guide to research methods.  Newbury Park, CA:  SAGE.
• Valle, R.S.  (Ed.).  (1998)  Phenomenological Inquiry in Psychology:  Existential and transpersonal dimensions.  New York:  Plenum.
• Von Eckhartsberg, R. (1986).  Life-World Experience:  Existential phenomenological research approaches in psychology.  Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America.
• Willig, C. (2001) Introducing Quantitative Research in Psychology.  Philadelphia, PA:  Open University Press.  (A good primer for undergraduates). 
• Zimmer, H.  (1957). The King and the Corpse:  Tales of the soul’s conquest of evil.  Princeton, NJ.

 Existentialism in Literature:

• Camus, A. (1942/1946).  The Stranger.  Trans.  Gilbert, S.  New York:  Vintage
• Camus, A.  (1972).  The Plague.  New York:  Random House.
• Ibsen, H.  (1983).  Peer Gynt and the Wild Duck.  New York:  Hungry Minds Inc.
• Sartre, J. P.  (1964).  ±·²¹³Ü²õ±ð²¹.  New York:  New Directions.
• Tolstoy, L.  (1960)  The Death of Ivan Ilych.  New York:  New American Library.
• Wallant, E.L.  (1980).  The Children at the Gate.  New York:  Harcourt/Brace.
• Wallant, E.L.  (1973)  The Tenants of Moonbloom.  New York:  Harcourt/Brace.

Existential, Phenomenological and Humanistic Journals:

• Contemporary Psychoanalysis
• Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
• Methods:  A Journal for Human Science
• Phenomenology and Pedagogy
• The Humanistic Psychologist