ABSTRACT
This chapter has been written specifically to introduce this book of my collected works.
I am interested in phenomenology and existentialism; as David Cooper has written, ‘existentialism is worth revisiting at intervals for the help it may offer with themes of contemporary interest’ (1990: vii). But what happened to phenomenology with the advent of postmodernism, and what are the potential implications of this for existential psychotherapy and counselling (and psychotherapy and counselling more generally) in the twenty-rst century? Are we now in a neoliberal world where ‘we are all – like it or not – post-modern existentialists, searching for connections and meanings, trying to nd our way’ (Margulies, 1999: 7041)? This book, comprising a collection of my work, can be seen as an exploration of these questions.
