Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy ― Theories, Methods, and Practices

The book represents current, cutting-edge thinking in the field, while at the same time serving as a timely touchstone for the growth of international training, educational, and scientific efforts. There is growing interest in existential therapies in applied and academic settings. This volume serves as a natural extension of previous work, stimulate scholarly inquiry, and galvanize future efforts. Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy: Theories, Methods, and Practices consists of chapters written by prominent proponents of existential psychotherapy. A goal of this book is to coincide with international efforts which recently led to the First World Congress of Existential Therapy. 

Stefan E. Schulenberg (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology-Clinical/Disaster Specialty Track, University of South Dakota, 2001) is a licensed psychologist in the state of Mississippi, an Associate Professor in the University of Mississippi’s Psychology Department, and a Logotherapy Diplomate. Dr. Schulenberg is the Director of the University of Mississippi’s Clinical-Disaster Research Center (UM-CDRC), an integrated research, teaching, and training center with emphases in disaster mental health and positive psychology.

Dr. Schulenberg’s research interests include disaster mental health, perceived meaning, purpose in life, positive psychology, and psychological assessment. He served as a mental health consultant on a National Science Foundation research grant issued in response to Hurricane Katrina and conducted evaluation research funded by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health relating to the effects of the Gulf oil spill (Deepwater Horizon oil spill). He conducts workshops and provides training on disaster preparedness, psychological first aid, disaster response, meaning and purpose in life, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.

Dr. Schulenberg is a disaster mental health volunteer and supervisor in the American Red Cross, and has worked with various other volunteer organizations, such as Mississippi’s Disaster Response Network, United Way, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He teaches the graduate cognitive assessment course for the University of Mississippi’s doctoral program in clinical psychology, where he has also developed seminars in disaster mental health and positive psychology. At the undergraduate level, Dr. Schulenberg teaches courses in disaster mental health, positive psychology, psychology and law, and abnormal psychology, as well as sections of the Honor’s Freshman Seminar for the University of Mississippi’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.