Recent NSPC Publications

In Press

  • Van Deurzen, E. (In Press) Contemporary Considerations of Freedom, in L. Hoffman, L. X. Vallejos, D. Hocoy, P. Tummala-Narra & E. DeRobertis (eds.), APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology, Volume 1: History, Research Philosophy and Theory, APA.
  • Arnold-Baker, C., Wharne, S. & Icoz, J. (In Press) Sartre, Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty: The French Existentialists, in L. Hoffman, L. X. Vallejos, D. Hocoy, P. Tummala-Narra & E. DeRobertis (eds.), APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology, Volume 1: History, Research Philosophy and Theory, APA.
  • Van Deurzen, E. (In Press) Beginning to Live: The art of existential freedom, Allen Lane.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. (In Press) An Existential Journey: ‘World’ travelling to M/otherland, in J. Harrod (ed.), Mother Becoming, Demeter Press.

2025

  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2025) Confronting Existence: Matrescence, Trauma and Growth, in S. Wharne (ed.) Psychological growth following trauma: Insights from phenomenological research, Routledge.
  • Van Deurzen, E. & Arnold-Baker, C. (2025) Structural Existential Analysis: An existential-phenomenological method for researching life, Routledge.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2025) Responsibility for-the-Other: The heavy weight of care, Existential Analysis, 36.1, January 2025.
  • Wharne, S., Arnold-Baker, C. & Hakim-Dowek, N. (2025) What would an existential approach bring to research supervision in postgraduate psychotherapy and counselling psychology education?, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2025; 25(1), Article e12763
  • Tantam, D. (2025) Stoats and Weasels, Existential Analysis, 36.2
  • Tantam, D. (2025) Neglected Existential Thinkers: Lou Andreas-Salome, Existential Analysis, 36.2

2024

  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2024) Maternal Love: The Antidote to the Existential Crisis of Motherhood, International Journal of Psychotherapy, A Special Issue on “Women and Love”, Vol 28, No. 2: Summer 2024
  • Kakad, R. (2024) Working With Love in the Therapy Room, International Journal of Psychotherapy, A Special Issue on “Women and Love”, Vol 28, No. 2: Summer 2024
  • Tantam, D. (2024) Challenging Psychiatry’s Reliance on the Disease Model: A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement, Routledge.

2023

  • Arnold-Baker, C., Wharne, S., Hakim Dowek, N., Gibson, N. & Molle, J. with Deurzen, E. van (2023) Existential Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions, Routledge.

2022

  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2022) ‘Birth Strike: Holding the Tension between Existence and Non-Existence’, in D. Vakoch & S. Mickey (eds.) Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of COVID-19 and Climate Change, Springer.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2022) Birth, Death and Isolation: Motherhood during a pandemic, in M. Hanaway, (ed.) Existentialism in Pandemic Times: Implications for Psychotherapists, Coaches and Organisations, Routledge.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2022) Working in perinatal mental health as a counselling psychologist, in D. Best, H. Nicholas & M. Bradley (eds.) Roles and Contexts in Counselling Psychology: Professionals in Practice, Routledge.
  • Molle, J., Millman, R., van Deurzen-Smith, D. (pulished as van Deurzen-Smith, S.) & Turner, J. (2022) Existential Psychotherapy, Coaching and Pastoral Care, Humane alternatives to the psychiatric model: The Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Psychiatry Series, Ethics International Press.

2021

  • Deurzen, E. van (2021) Rising from Existential Crisis: Life beyond calamity, PCCS Books.

2020

  • Arnold-Baker, C. (Ed) (2020) The Existential Crisis of Motherhood, Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Hakim-Dowek, N. (2020) The Bi-Rooted Migrant – An Existential Journey, in M. Bazzano, Re-Visioning Existential Psychotherapy, Routledge.

2019

  • Deurzen, E. van, Craig, E., Langle, A., Schneider, K. J. Tantam, D. & du Plock, S. (Eds) (2019) Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, Wiley.
  • Deurzen, E. van & Arnold-Baker, C. (2019) Case Study: Rahim’s Dilemma, Case Study By Emmy van Deurzen, Commentary by Claire Arnold-Baker, In Deurzen, E. van et al (Eds), Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, Wiley.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. & Lamont, N. (2019) ‘Challenges and New Developments in Existential-Phenomenological Therapy’, in E. van Deurzen, E. Craig, A. Längle, K. J. Schneider, D. Tantam, & S. du Plock (eds.) The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, Wiley.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. & Lamont, N. (2019) ‘Philosophical and Political Challenges to Existential-Phenomenological Therapy’, in E. van Deurzen, E. Craig, A. Längle, K. J. Schneider, D. Tantam, & S. du Plock (eds.) The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, Wiley
  • Tantam, D. (ed.) (2019) Existential Group Therapy, in E. van Deurzen, E. Craig, A. Längle, K. J. Schneider, D. Tantam, & S. du Plock (eds.) The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, Wiley
  • van Deurzen-Smith, D. (pulished as van Deurzen-Smith, S.) (2019) ‘Challenges and New Developments in Existential-Phenomenological Therapy’, in E. van Deurzen, E. Craig, A. Längle, K. J. Schneider, D. Tantam, & S. du Plock (eds.) The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, Wiley.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2019) The Process of Becoming: Maternal Identity in the Transition to Motherhood, Existential Analysis, 30.2, July 2019, 260-274.
  • Arnold-Baker, C. (2019) The Public-Private paradox: An existential exploration of mothers in society, Self & Society: International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, 47 (1), 7-13.
  • Van Deurzen, E. (2019) Facing An Uncertain Future: The next 30 years of Existential Therapy, Existential Analysis, 30.1
  • Hakim-Dowek, N. (2019) The Existential Journey of the Bi-Rooted Migrant, Self & Society: An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, vol. 47, No. 1, Spring 2019, 140-145

2018

  • Deurzen, E. van & Arnold-Baker, C. (2018)  Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features, Routledge.
  • Tantam, D. (2018) The Interbrain, Jessica Kingsley.
  • Gibson, N. & Tantam, D. (2018) The best medicine? Psychotherapists’ experience of the impact of humour on the process of psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 29.1, 64-73.
  • Sorensen, A. D., Lodge, R. & van Deurzen, E. (2018) Exploring Learning Outcomes in Existential Therapy, Existential Analysis, 29.1
  • Larson, F. V., Arrand, J. R., Tantam, D., Jones, P. B., & Holland, A. J. (2018). Copy number variants in people with autism spectrum disorders and co-morbid psychosis. European Journal of Medical Genetics, 61(4), 230-234. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2017.12.005
  • Van Deurzen, E. & van Deurzen-Smith, D. (pulished as van Deurzen-Smith, S.) (2018) Existential Transformative Coaching: Working with Images, Feelings and Values to Revitalize the Life-World, Existential Analysis, 29.1
  • van Deurzen-Smith, D. (pulished as van Deurzen-Smith, S.) (Stoking the flames: Coaching towards authentic and impassioned change, in S. du Plock (ed.) Case Studies in Existential Therapy: Translating Theory into Practice, PCCS.

2017

  • Deurzen, E. van (2017) Existential Therapy, in C. Feltham, T. Hanley, & L. Winter, The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 4th. edition. Sage.
  • Bennett, J. & van Deurzen, E. (2017) The Meaning of Binge Drinking: A phenomenological study of women who go on Big Nights Out, Existential Analysis, 28.2
  • Tantam, D (2017) Psychopharmacology, in C. Feltham, T. Hanley, & L. Winter, The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 4th. Edition, Sage.
  • Gibson, N. & Tantam, D. (2017) The best medicine? The meaning of humour and its significance to the process of psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 28(2), 272-287.
  • Tantam, D. (2017)  Is positive psychology compatible with freedom? In M. Brown, T. Lomas & F. Eiroa-Orosa (eds.), International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology, Routledge.
  • Larson, F. V., Wagner, A. P., Jones, P. B., Tantam, D., Lai, M.-C., Baron-Cohen, S., & Holland, A. J. (2017). Psychosis in autism: Comparison of the features of both conditions in a dually affected cohort. British Journal Of Psychiatry, 210(4), 269-275. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.116.187682

2016

  • Deurzen, E. van (2016) Structural Existential Analysis (SEA): A Phenomenological Method for Therapeutic Work, in Schulenberg, S.E. Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy, Switzerland: Springer Publications
  • Deurzen, E. van & Tantam, D. (2016) Creating the First World Congress for Existential Therapy, in Schulenberg, S.E. Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy, Switzerland: Springer Publications, pp 145-157.
  • Deurzen, E. van & Adams, M. (2016) Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy, (2nd. edition), Sage.