ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by unpacking what philosophy and the term existential-phenomenological means. Philosophy can be daunting. It must be noted that philosophy, when it hardens, can become another dogmatic excuse for tyranny. The seduction of painful uncertainty offers a certain direction for the fragile human story. Existentialism’s implied narcissism is called out by Loewenthal in his prizing of existential notions of experience and meaning over any theoretically driven model of therapy. He argues for the consideration of post-modern thinkers in his concept of post-existentialism. The chapter offers a handful of concept-bricks that support a delineating of the author's practice and how it is directly influenced by existential-phenomenological thinking. It posits that radical existentialism is manuski.
