Hampstead Psychotherapy Club - November webinar with Emmy van Deurzen - Living Beyond Confrontation with Death

Confrontation with the reality of death can lead to insecurity and intense emotion, but beyond fear, anxiety and depression, lies the possibility of a renewal of existential courage. How can we face up to the paradoxes of human existence and renew our commitment to the future, after we have encountered the frontier of life?

This session will look at the philosophical wisdom and psychological knowledge that can enrich our work with people who have been confronted with the limits and boundaries of life and for whom each day will hold both enormous challenges and great new discoveries and consolations.

EMMY VAN DEURZEN is an existential therapist, counselling psychologist, philosopher, international speaker and author of 20 books.  Her work has been widely translated. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis and its journal in 1988, the Regent’s School of Psychotherapy in 1990, the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in 1996 and the Existential Academy in 2010.  She was the driving force behind the First World Congress of Existential Therapy in 2015, which also saw the birth of the Federation for Existential Therapists in Europe. She is visiting professor with Middlesex University and President of the worldwide Existential Movement. 

Amongst her books are the bestseller Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (Sage, 3d edition 2012), Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009), Everyday Mysteries (Routledge, 2nd ed, 2010), Paradox and Passion (Wiley, 2nd ed 2015) and Rising from Existential Crisis (PCCS books, 2021). Her book The Art of Freedom: Guide to a Wiser Life will be published by Penguin in 2025.