Title: Existential Wellness
Subtitle: Human-Centered Approaches as Alternatives to the Medical Model
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Counselling, Healthcare  
BIC Classification: JM, LA, MMH
BISAC Classification: PSY031000, PSY036000, MED105000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jan 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-331-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-332-3

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Description

Existential Wellness provides the first-ever comprehensive look at how existential ideas and practices function as powerful and ethical alternatives to the medical model of “diagnosing and treating mental disorders.”

Existentialism presents certain ideas about what it means to be human, about the tasks and challenges of being human, and about ways in which individuals flee from and avoid those tasks and challenges. It has its favorite vocabulary, just as other bodies of thought do, including words like suffering, despair, anxiety, absurdity, uncertainty, freedom, authenticity, and personal responsibility.

The meeting of two threads, the existential and the therapeutic, gave rise to existential therapy, existential psychiatry, and existential coaching. Practitioners who added the word “existential” to their self-description shared certain beliefs about what helping was all about.

Existential wellness is a contemporary idea and the “next step” in existential thinking. It invites human beings not only to mull over existential questions—about the purpose or purposes of life, about the nature of meaning, about one’s place in the universe, about the requirements of a personal, self-created philosophy of life—but to deeply embrace the facts of existence and to arrive at a place of relative serenity in a sea of anxiety. It invites us to not only think about life but to create a life that works, existentially speaking.

Existential Wellness is the eighth Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.

Biography

Editor(s):  Dr. Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is a former family therapist, based in California, USA, who works actively as a creativity coach. He is the author of many books on creativity, psychology, and mental health. Don Laird, NCC, LPC is the founder and owner of eTalkTherapy, LLC and is an adjunct professor at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Arnoldo Cantú, LCSW is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with experience in school social work, private practice, and currently working in community mental health seeing children, adolescents, families, and adults.

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