Emmy van Deurzen

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Dutch existential therapist

Emmy van Deurzen (born 13 December 1951 in The Hague, Netherlands) is an existential therapist. She developed a philosophical therapy based in existential-phenomenology.

1 Biography
2 Honours
3 Books
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links

Biography

van Deurzen was born and raised in The Hague, in The Netherlands, then went to France to study, where she earned two master's degrees, one in philosophy, at the University of Montpellier, where she studied with Michel Henry, and one in clinical psychology, at the University of Bordeaux, during which time she was supervised by Dr. François Tosquelles. She wrote her thesis on phenomenology and psychiatry in relation to solitude and loneliness for her philosophy dissertation and on attempted suicide for her clinical psychology thesis. She worked as psychotherapist in France, then moved to the UK in 1977, where she became involved in antipsychiatry activism and worked for some time with R. D. Laing. She came to her own version of existential therapy, and started teaching at Antioch University, after which she moved to Regent's University London when the program moved there, joining the Regent's faculty when the program was incorporated into the college.

She published her first book on her approach in 1987 and the next year founded the Society for Existential *ysis (SEA) and its Journal of Existential *ysis. After she left Regent's, she founded the New School for Psychotherapy and Counselling, and a conflict resolution centre. In 2005 she became an honorary professor at the University of Sheffield. She did her PhD on Heidegger's concepts of authenticity and inauthenticity and their relevance to psychotherapy, at City University, London. She has published widely on existential therapy and her work has been translated into twenty plus languages. She contributed numerous ideas to existential therapy, including that of the four worlds model and the emotional comp*.

In 2014 she and her husband Prof Digby Tantam, created the Existential Academy, a community interest company, in West Hampstead, where they offer five masters programmes and two doctoral programmes in conjunction with Middlesex University, as well as a range of short courses. (www.existentialacademy.com)

Honours

As listed by the University of Sheffield.

2007–2008 - Visiting *ociate, Darwin College, Cambridge University
2006 – Fellow, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
2005 – Honorary Fellow, Swedish *ociation for Existential Psychotherapy (SEPT)
2005 – Honorary Professor, University of Sheffield
2001 – Fellow, British *ociation for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
1999 – Fellow, British Psychological Society (BPS)
1999–2002 - Official Delegate to the Council of Europe, for the European *ociation for Psychotherapy (EAP)
1998–1999 - Chair of the British Psychological Society, Psychotherapy Section
1998 – Honorary European Certificate for Psychotherapy
1997–1999 - Chair of the Universities Psychotherapy *ociation (UPCA)
1995–2002 - European *ociation for Psychotherapy (EAP) Amb*ador

Books

Rising from Existential Crisis: Living Beyond Calamity, (2021) Monmouth: Monmouth: PCCS books.
Wiley World Handbook for Existential Therapy, (2019) Co-edited with Craig, E., Schneider K. Längle, A., Tantam, D. and du Plock, S, London: Wiley
Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features, London: Routledge. (2018) Co-aut*d with Claire Arnold-Baker, London: Routledge
Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition (2016). Co-aut*d with Martin Adams, London: Sage.
Paradox and P*ion in Psychotherapy, Second Edition (2015). Chichester: Wiley
Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy (2013). Edited with Susan Iacovou, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice, Third Edition (2012), London: Sage Publications
Existential Perspectives on Coaching (2012). Co-edited with Monica Hanway, London: Palgrave, Macmillan
Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy (2011). Co-aut*d with Martin Adams, London: Sage Publications
Everyday Mysteries: A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy, Second Edition (2010), London: Routledge
Existential Perspectives on Supervision (2009). Co-edited with Sarah Young, London: Palgrave Macmillan
Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (2008), London: Sage Publications
Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling (2005). With Raymond Kenward, London: Sage
Existential Perspectives on Existential and Human Issues (2005). Edited with Claire Arnold-Baker, Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice, Second Edition (2002), London: Sage
Paradox and P*ion in Psychotherapy (1998), Chichester: Wiley
Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy (1997), London: Routledge
Existential Counselling in Practice (1988), London: Sage

References

External links

Official website

Emmy read her essay ‘Becoming an Existential Therapist’ on BBC Radio 3 on 15 November 2013: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hjw9f

Google Scholar profile:https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zgU167EAAAAJ&hl=en

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