Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity

In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human condition.

M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D., is Founder and Director of the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis and a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco. His two most recent books, The Legacy of R. D. Laing (2015, ed.) and The Death of Desire (2017, 2nd ed.), are also published by Routledge. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and psychosis. He lives in Berkeley, California.