Existential Psychotherapy
@javanderhoff
Clinical therapist specializing in existential-humanism, psychoanalysis, group psychotherapy, nature-based therapy/ecopsychology, and neuroscience.
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“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.” –John Dewey (Your Brain on Art, p. 161)
“Artists gain creativity by growing their capacity with quantitative reasoning, and logic-minded people gain creativity when they apply reason to what seems subjective. There is often exquisite order within chaos, and intricate beauty within order.” –Michael E. Long
“Human beings are neither angels nor demons. Given the same circumstances, we do not know what we would do. When we recognize this, it becomes easier to offer compassion and forgiveness.” –Scott Barry Kaufman: Rise Above (2025, p. 249) @sbkaufman
“When we suppress (consciously) or repress (unconsciously) our darkest thoughts, these may find their way to ‘erupt’ into our lives, like a volcano, when we are not prepared, frequently with grave consequences.” –Scott Barry Kaufman: Choose Growth (2022, p. 85)
“The way to be good when you don’t know how to be good is by learning. You should do everything in such a way as to be learning what the right thing to do is, and this means getting other people to show you when you are wrong.” Agnes Collard – Open Socrates (2025, p. 16)
“The work of art is, then, the ideal answer to the creative type to the problem of existence as he takes it in-not only the existence of the external world, but especially his own: who he is as a painfully separate person with nothing shared to lean on.” -Ernest Becker (1973)
"Do you remember running? The purity of the air around Braiding willow branches into a crown That love is all I want I'm a child humming Into the clarity of black space Where stars shine like tears on the night's face With a cool wind" -Adrianne Lenker: Real House (2024)
“The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.” -Ernest Becker: The Denial of Death (1973, p. 66)
“Neurosis is another word for describing a complicated technique for avoiding misery, but reality is the misery.” -Ernest Becker: The Denial of Death (1973, p. 56)
“Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as, the fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful.” -Viktor E. Frankl: Yes to Life (p. 38)
“Living itself means nothing other than being questioned; our whole act of being is nothing more than responding to-of being responsible toward–life.” -Viktor E. Frankl: Yes to Life (2019, p. 33)
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