Existential Group Counselling and Psychotherapy provides a theoretical and practical foundation for practice. It serves as a guide that provides a solid grounding in the 'why' and 'how' of therapeutic group-work from an existential perspective.

Karen Weixel-Dixon is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and accredited mediator in private practice, and a visiting lecturer at Regent's University London. Her paradigm is existential phenomenological, and she is particularly interested in how people experience, and engage with, time.

00. Introduction; 01. Part One: Modern Western Origins; Historical Overview; 02. Kurt Lewin; 03. Wilfred Bion; 04. S.H Foulkes; 05. Carl Rogers; 06. Irvin D. Yalom; 07. Conclusion and Summary part one; 08. Part Two: Being and Doing; Towards an Existential Phenomenological Model for Group psychotherapy and Counselling; 09. Why Group; 10. The Existential 'Givens' Human Existence; 11. Time and Temporality; 12. Relatedness; 13. Uncertainty, Angst and Anxiety; 14. Freedom, Choice, and Change; 15. Death; 16. Meaning, Meaninglessness, and Nothingness; 17. Embodiment and Spatiality; 18. Emotions; 19. Language; 20. The World-View; 21. The Contributions of Existential Phenomenology; 22. The Contributions of Hermeneutics; 23. The Nature of Problems and the Process of Change; 24. Relational Issues; 25. Conclusion and Summary part two; 26. Part Three: Doing and Being; Forming, Maintaining, and Ending the Group; 27. Risks, disappointments, benefits, and therapeutic effects; 28. Focal points: responsibilities of the facilitator, the members, the group; 29. The Ways of Dialogue; 30. An existential phenomenological model for dreamwork in group; 31. Difficult and Challenging Behaviours; 32. The Ambiguity of Ethics (with apologies to Simone De Beauvoir); 33. Conclusion and Summary part three