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Human beings live in constant battle with issues that are fundamental to their existence and couples who seek relationship therapy are looking for a way to reconnect with one another and understand the existential predicaments that they each face. In this inspiring book, Emmy van Deurzen and Susan Iacovou bring together world renowned therapists to demonstrate how existential theories can improve therapeutic practice. Each contributor explores their own unique existential approach to relationship therapy, drawing on the great thinkers that have informed their work - from Socrates to Sartre - and revealing some of their most profound practice with their clients. Whether you are a student, trainee, or experienced counsellor, this a ground-breaking book will enrich and transform your work with relationships.

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'Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy is a pioneering contribution to the literature on relationship therapies. In one cogent volume, editors Emmy Van Deurzen, Susan Iacovou, and a first-rate cast of authors have thrust existential therapeutic principles onto the front stage of substantive, effective approaches to this essential arena of practice.' - Kirk Schneider, Ph.D., author of Existential-Humanistic Therapy (with Orah Krug) and editor of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy 'A book like this could not have come too soon, its offerings so vital and timeless... it is brimming with incisive applications of existential philosophy to the relational dilemmas and impasses that one encounters in the psychotherapist's chair. This volume will certainly be embraced by many helping professionals and those attracted to living more authentically in their relationships to self and to others.' - Jason Winkler, Faculty Member, Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy, Canada 'Therapists have found it hard to access well digested and clear thinking about relationship therapy from an existential perspective as its targeted contributions are limited and somewhat far-flung. van Deurzen and Iacovou have produced a corrective to this which offers important insights into many of the relationship issues faced by therapists in their day to day practice.' - Dr Martin Milton, Principal Lecturer and Programme Director of Counselling Pscyhology Programmes, Regent's University London, UK

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Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, psychotherapist and counselling psychologist, with a worldwide reputation in existential therapy. She is Principal and Co-founder of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the author of many seminal books in the field. Susan Iacovou is an existential psychologist and psychotherapist with a private practice in Cheshire, UK, and teaches on counselling courses at a number of UK universities. She has published widely and has a particular interest in existential therapy with couples and families.

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