Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
July 1, 2026
Jim Palmer
Contemporary models of well-being remain incomplete because they overlook the existential dimension. Drawing on philosophy, phenomenology, anthropology, sociology and public health, this article proposes existential health as a fourth domain of human flourishing. It examines how individuals and societies relate to mortality, groundlessness, isolation, meaning, belonging and ecological...
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2026
Michael R. Montgomery, Noah Cebuliak
This paper examines how psychedelic therapy reflects metamodern sensibilities – navigating between scepticism, hope, science and subjectivity. Rather than prescribing outcomes, it explores how patients engage psychedelic experiences as meaning-making processes within complex cultural and psychological landscapes, inviting new perspectives on healing, integration and the role of consciousness in...
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2023
A. Carnahan
The author offers a framework for the theoretical understanding of challenging psychedelic experiences. This is achieved by integrating the existential psychodynamics of Yalom and the common causes of challenging psychedelic experiences noted by Grof in his LSD work. Praxis is offered by the application of hermeneutic practice to psychedelic integration.
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2019
Adam Knowles
Over the next thirty years, the renaissance in psychedelic research for psychotherapy and the burgeoning possibilities of blockchain technologies will come together. Describing fascinating interactions that are already taking place, the author suggests further possibilities for these two technologies relevant to psychotherapists and academics and outlines links to existential philosophy.
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2016
Georgia Feliou
In this paper, the nature of spiritual or mystical experiences is discussed. An effort to sketch phenomenological criteria for differentiating these experiences from psychotic and depressive episodes is also provided, based on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology and on Anthony Steinbock’s analysis. Key words Spiritual or mystical experiences, Dark Night of the Soul, mysticism, schizophrenia,...
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2015
George Berguno
The present paper pays tribute to Shinya Tsukamoto, one of Japan's best known, albeit controversial, filmmakers. To begin with, the author identifies a form of writing called the phenomenological meditation; and claims this unique form of writing as an act of rebellion against intellectual constraints. The author then proceeds to illustrate the phenomenological meditation by means of a...
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
July 1, 2010
Jyoti Nanda
In an earlier paper (Nanda, 2009), I put forth the argument that the practice of mindfulness gives rise to existential-phenomenological themes and that both practices of Mindfulness and Existential therapy have many parallels. This paper explores how existential-phenomenological themes inevitably arise in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), one of the models of 'third wave CBT' when it...
Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
2010
Amedeo Giorgi
Phenomenology is a relatively new philosophy with some distinguishable features and when social scientists base their research methods on that perspective sometimes variations in methods take place that are attributed to phenomenology but the variations are not necessarily consistent with the phenomenological perspective nor with good scientific practices. When the modifications are not...