Pessimism is back. That will not surprise anyone who has been keeping track of the nation’s pulse over the past several months — or perhaps the last several years. Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech, ...

Existentialistification explains the deep shift from living on autopilot to questioning life, identity, freedom, and personal ...

Victor Frankl survived 4 death camps during WW2 while losing his parents, his brother and his wife to Hitler’s murderous regime. While Frankl experienced the worst of humanity and the terrors of human ...

“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one we must sacrifice the other.” — Ernst Junger Recently a neurologist told me that science has not identified where ...

I often hear from clients: “I’m having an existential crisis.” As flexible and creative as I try to be as a clinician, my response to this sentiment is often the same: “No, you are thinking ...

The last ten years have brought rapid advances in technology, lifestyle shifts, and growing social complexity. In this context, the philosophies of key existential thinkers—Søren Kierkegaard, ...

Existential thinkers have a long history of poignant responses to crises, and a sampling of these may be of help to us now. When the capacity to respond outwardly is limited, as in the case of ...