Dates & Links
Existential Authors throughout the Ages
Gilgamesh (Noah) 2750 BC
Dwaipayana (Krishna) 1500 BC
Moses 1400β1280 BC
Upanishads 800 to 300 BCE
Zoroaster 630β553 BC
LaoβTze 604β531 BC
Buddha 563β510 BC
Confucius 557β479 BC
Heraclitus 540β480 BC
Parmenides 515β450 BC
Sophocles 496β406 BC
Socrates 469β399 BC
Plato 427β347 BC
Diogenes 413 β323 BC
Aristotle 384β322 BC
Epicurus 341β270 BC
Zeno 335β263 BC
Cicero 106β43 BC
Lucretius 98β51 BC
Jesus Christ 4 BCβ29 AD
Seneca 1β65
Epictetus 55β135
Marcus Aurelius 121β180
Augustine 354β430
Muhammed 571β632
Hildegard von Bingen 1098β1179
Mohammed Rumi 1207β1273
Thomas Aquinas 1225β1274
Meister Eckhart 1260β1328
Alighieri Dante 1265β1321
Desiderius Erasmus 1465β1536
Martin Luther 1483β1546
Niccolo Macchiavelli 1469β1527
Michel de Montaigne 1533β1592
William Shakespeare 1564β1616
Thomas Hobbes 1588β1679
RenΓ© Descartes 1596β1650
Blaise Pascal 1623β1662
Baruch de Spinoza 1632β1677
John Locke 1632β1704
Gottfried Leibniz 1646β1716
George Berkeley 1685β1753
David Hume 1711β1776
Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712β1778
Immanuel Kant 1724β1804
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749β1832
Friedrich Schiller 1759β1805
Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768β1834
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770β1831
Johann Christian Friedrich HΓΆlderlin 1770β1843
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772β1834
Arthur Schopenhauer 1788β1860
John Stuart Mill 1806β1873
Max Stirner 1806β1856
Charles Dickens 1812β1870
SΓΆren Kierkegaard 1813β1855
Karl Marx 1818β1883
George Eliot 1819β1880
Friedrich Engels 1820β1895
Fyodor Dostoyevski 1821β1881
Leo Tolstoy 1828β1910
Wilhelm Dilthey 1833β1911
Franz Brentano 1838β1917
William James 1842β1910
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844β1900
Carl Stumpf 1848β1936
Hans Vaihinger 1852β1933
Sigmund Freud 1856β1939
Ferdinand de Saussure 1857β1913
Emile Durkheim 1858β1917
HenriβLouis Bergson 1859β1941
Edmund Husserl 1859β1938
Pierre Janet 1859β1947
John Dewey 1859β1952
George Santayana 1863β1952
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo 1864β1936
Jakob von UexkΓΌll 1864β1944
Lev Shestov 1866β1938
Rosa Luxembourg 1870β1919
Alfred Adler 1870β1937
Alexander PfΓ€nder 1870β1941
Marcel Proust 1871β1922
Max Scheler 1874β1928
Nikolai Berdyaev 1874β1948
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875β1926
Carl Jung 1875β1961
Hermann Hesse 1877β1962
Martin Buber 1878β1965
Albert Einstein 1879β1955
Ludwig Binswanger 1881β1966
Adolf Reinach 1883β1917
Franz Kafka 1883β1924
JosΓ© Ortega y Gasset 1883β1955
Karl Jaspers 1883β1969
Otto Rank 1884β1939
Gaston Bachelard 1884β1962
Rudolf Bultmann 1884β1976
Georg LukΓ‘cs 1885β1971
Eugene Minkowski 1885β1972
Paul Tillich 1886β1965
Franz Rosenzweig 1886β1929
Ruth Benedict 1887β1948
Frederik Buytendijk 1887β1974
Jean Wahl 1888β1974
Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888β1965
Hans Lipps 1889β1941
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889β1951
Frieda FrommβReichmann 1889β1957
Gabriel Marcel 1889β1973
Martin Heidegger 1889β1976
Dietrich von Hildebrand 1889β1977
Kurt Lewin 1890β1947
Jakob Moreno 1890β1974
Edith Stein 1891β1942
Walter Benjamin 1892β1940
Alexandre KoyrΓ© 1892β1964
Reinhold Niebuhr 1892β1971
Frederick Perls 1893β1970
Charlotte BΓΌhler 1893β1974
Max Horkheimer 1895β1971
Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895β1986
Mikhail Bakhtin 1895β1975
Wilhelm Reich 1897β1957
Georges Bataille 1897β1962
Gordon Allport 1897β1967
Wilfred Bion 1897β1979
Herbert Marcuse 1898β1979
Alfred Schutz 1899β1959
Leo Strauss 1899β1973
Henri Ey 1900β1977
Erich Fromm 1900β1980
HansβGeorg Gadamer 1900β2002
Aron Gurwitsch 1901β1973
Margaret Mead 1901β1978
Jacques Lacan 1901β1981
Alexandre KojΓ¨ve 1902β1968
Carl Ransom Rogers 1902β1987
Erik Erikson 1902β1994
Theodor Adorno 1903β1969
Medard Boss 1903β1990
Otto Bollnow 1903β1991
Hans Jonas 1903β1993
Gregory Bateson 1904β1980
Herbert Spiegelberg 1904β1990
George Kelly 1905β1967
Eugen Fink 1905β1975
JeanβPaul Sartre 1905β1980
Stefan Strasser 1905β1991
Henry Ellenberger 1905β1993
Viktor Frankl 1905β1997
Hannah Arendt 1906β1975
Emmanuel Levinas 1906β1995
Jean Hyppolite 1907β1968
Jean Beaufret 1907β1982
Maurice Merleau Ponty 1908β1961
Abraham Maslow 1908β1970
Simone de Beauvoir 1908β1986
Claude LΓ©viβStrauss 1908β2009
Simone Weil 1909β1943
Rollo May 1909β1994
EugΓ¨ne Ionesco 1909β1994
Magda King 1910β2005
Roland KΓΌhn 1912β2005
Albert Camus 1913β1960
William Barrett 1913β1992
Paul Ricoeur 1913β2005
Albert Ellis 1913β2007
Jan Hendrik van den Berg 1914β2012
Roland Barthes 1915β1980
Hazel Barnes 1915β2008
James Bugental 1915β2008
Hans Cohn 1916β2004
Harold Garfinkel 1917β2011
Louis Althusser 1918β1990
Gion Condrau 1919β2006
John Macquarrie 1919β2007
Iris Murdoch 1919β1999
Mary Midgley 1919β2018
Adrian van Kaam 1920β2007
Thomas Szasz 1920β2012
Walter Kaufmann 1921β1980
Paulo Freire 1921β1997
Betty Friedan 1921β2006
Maurice Friedman 1921β2012
Michel Henry 1922β2002
Martti Siirala 1922β2008
Aaron Esterson 1923β1999
Joseph J. Kockelmans 1923β2008
Ernest Becker 1924β1974
Jean FranΓ§ois Lyotard 1924β1998
Freddie Strasser 1924β2008
Mary Warnock 1924β2019
Peter Lomas 1924β2010
Clark Moustakas 1924β2012
Frantz Fanon 1925β1961
Gilles Deleuze 1925β1995
John Moorhouse Heaton 1925β2017
Michel Foucault 1926β1984
Eugene Gendlin 1926β2017
John Smidt Thomsen 1926β2016
Ronald David Laing 1927β1989
Alvin Mahrer 1927β2014
Jean Baudrillard 1929β2007
Hubert Dreyfus 1929β2017
JΓΌrgen Habermas 1929β2026
Felix Guattari 1930β1992
Jacques Derrida 1930β2004
Pierre Bourdieu 1930β2002
David Cooper 1931β1986
Colin Wilson 1931β2013
Amedeo Giorgi 1931β
Stanislav Grof 1931β
Irvin Yalom 1931β
Luce Irigaray 1932β
Claudio Naranjo 1932β2019
Don Ihde 1934β2024
Daniel Stern 1934β2012
Leon Redler 1936β
Morton Schatzman 1936β
HΓ©lΓ¨ne Cixous 1937β
Thomas Nagel 1937β
Paul Wong 1937β2024
John Sallis 1938β2025
David Smail 1938β2014
Germaine Greer 1939-
Joseph Berke 1939β2021
David M. KleinbergβLevin 1939β
BΓ©la Buda 1939β2013
John Caputo 1940β
Anthony Stadlen 1940β
Bo Jacobsen 1940β
Andrew Feldmar 1940β
Julia Kristeva 1941β
Christopher Macann 1941β
Steve Gans 1941β
James Park 1941β
Daniel Dennett 1942β2024
Robert Stolorow 1942β
Naomi Stadlen 1942β2025
Max van Manen 1942β
Robert Solomon 1943β2007
Betty Cannon 1943β
Alice HolzeyβKunz 1943β
Lucia Moja Strasser 1944β
Mike Harding 1944β
Erik Craig 1944β
Diana Mitchell 1945β
Paul SmithβPickard 1945β2017
Dan Stiwne 1945β
JeanβLuc Marion 1946β
Steve Ticktin 1946β
Michael Zimmermann 1946β
Miles Groth 1946β
Martha Nussbaum 1947β
Camille Paglia 1947β
Michael Guy Thompson 1947β
Perikles Kastridinis 1947β
Digby Tantam 1948β
Sarah Young 1948β
Martin Adams 1949β
Ernesto Spinelli 1949β
Andrea Sabbadini 1950β2025
Karen WeixelβDixon 1951β
Alfried LΓ€ngle 1951β
Raymond Kenward 1951β
Emmy van Deurzen 1951β
Les Todres 1953β
Dermot Moran 1953β
Rimantas KoΔiΕ«nas 1953β2026
Laura Barnett 1953β
Daniel Burston 1954β
Richard Kearney 1955β
Jean Grondin 1955β
Edwin Hersch 1955β
Paul McGinley 1955β
Babette Babich 1956β
Alison Strasser 1956β
Kirk Schneider 1956β
Simon Du Plock 1958β
Antonia Macaro 1959β
Simon Critchley 1960β
Dmitry Leontiev 1960β
Tim LeBon 1961β
Greg Madison 1961β
Gary Cox 1964β
Martin Milton 1964β
Simon Glendinning 1964β
Camila Batmanghelidjh 1964β2024
Alessandra Lemma 1965β
Mick Cooper 1966β
Zack Eleftheriadou 1966β
Julian Baggini 1968β
Daniel C. Sousa 1968β
Claire ArnoldβBaker 1969β
Alain de Botton 1969β
Danny van DeurzenβSmith 1985β
Links
Download an ebook of Emmyβs Groundbreaking; Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness or of her; Handbook of Existential Therapy Everyday Mysteries or of her recent co-authored; Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Go to Emmyβs English version of Wikipedia entry: click here
Emmy has a Facebook account as well as groups for Existential Therapy, Existential Coaching and for the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. She is happy for interested people to join these groups and take part in discussions.
Emmy also has a page on LinkedIn and groups for Existential Therapy and Existential Coaching to which she welcomes new members.
Emmyβs psychotherapy training school in London: The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling: click here
Her private practice is at Dilemma Consultancy: click here. This website also gives details of her availability for giving international lectures and workshops.
Emmy is the current president of the Existential Movement.
Her life training classes are run through the Existential Academy: click here
She has also written numerous songs and has recorded some of these on Youtube: click here You can find her there under the name of emmyzen
Her twitter account is also in the name of @emmyzen
Link to an interview for a Greek newspaper: click here
Book a private consultation
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