Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling

This volume represents a useful addition to the reference literature for students and practitioners in the area of counselling and psychotherapy. The authors bring together a wide range of information and insights, clearly drawing on their personal expertise and understandings as existential psychotherapists.

 Van Deurzen and Kenward introduce their dictionary as “a simple, robust and reliable reference work” aimed both at the layperson and the experienced professional. Certainly, the style of the book makes it accessible to the lay reader. There is never a sense of the authors relying on the reader's specialist knowledge or acquaintance with the vocabulary of...