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Texts about existential and humanistic therapy: what the school works with and where it came from.

• Existential isolation: the gap company does not closeYalom separates three kinds of aloneness. What the third one is, and why he treats it as a fact rather than a symptom.
• Logotherapy and the will to meaningViktor Frankl called the search for meaning the primary human motivation. What logotherapy means by meaning, and why no one can hand it to anyone else.
• Care of the self: what epimeleia heautou meantBefore "know yourself" came "take care of yourself". Foucault's reading of an ancient practice, and why he treated it as work rather than a mood.
• The four givens in Yalom's existential psychotherapyDeath, freedom, isolation, meaninglessness. The four facts Irvin Yalom put at the centre of therapy, and what a therapist listens for behind each one.