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Emmy van Deurzen's Biography

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Sheffield
To Digby Tantam
Dec 2008

Emmy is the author, co-author and editor of six books on existential psychotherapy, which have been translated into a variety of languages, including the bestseller Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (2nd edition Sage, 2002). Her latest book is Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage 2008).

Influences

Philosophy from Socrates onwards, especially philosophers of freedom and existence such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Jaspers, Tillich, Buber, but also phenomenologists such as Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau Ponty.

Upcoming Works

New book: Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness is about to be launched.

Agents

None.

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Publishers

Sage Publications.
Routledge.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Wiley.

Interests & Hobbies

Painting, Hill Walking, Cinema.