Existential Psychology East-West will appeal to anyone with an interest in understanding themselves and the nature and nurture of the human condition. Reading EPEW is like encountering a great river. It courses through the existential terrain and draws from many tributaries. It is both mysterious and inviting, beckoning the reader: ride the currents, plumb the depths, drink from the water.

Kevin Keenan, PhD
Faculty, Michigan School of Professional Psychology 

Existential psychology is more relevant to the contemporary world than ever before. This dynamic and provocative anthology not only presents an authoritative history and descriptions of the topic, but includes chapters by Chinese psychologists who have found ways in which existentialism both resonates and contrasts with Asian wisdom traditions. This is a cutting edge book that needs not only to be read, but to be applied to the human condition, both East and West.

Stanley Krippner, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School
Co-Editor, The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians: An International Perspective  

Face-to-face interaction in China led to virtual collaboration in writing this book. With the perspectives of scholars in both the USA and China represented, a true dialogic relationship is evident in this collection.  Differences and difficulties in cultural understandings of existentialism are addressed forthrightly which deepens the reflection process that is a hallmark of existential psychology. Existential Psychology East-West also serves as a bridge to Chinese/Asian traditions as they are articulated from an existential perspective. What a terrific model for cross-cultural collaboration and dialogue! 

David Lukoff, PhD
Core Faculty, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology 

It is high time that an edition like this should appear. Toward the end of his life, Martin Heidegger noted parallels between his own thought and that of Eastern religious thinkers. Following in the tradition of Heidegger's pupil and friend, existential analyst Medard Boss, Hoffman, Yang, Kaklauskas and Chan have initiated an impressive dialogue between Eastern and Western thinkers on existential issues in psychology. Bravo!

Betty Cannon, PhD
Author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis 

In this collection of 20 chapters entitled Existential Psychology East-West, the authors have brightly limned the commonalities and differences in Eastern and Western mentalities and their respective approaches into the “vasty deep” of human joy and anxiety, pleasure and suffering, enduring human values and personal ephemerality, and the emic and personological peculiarities of individuals in the various cultures that are clustered in these two hemispheres. The indigenous existentialism they each, separately, have in common provides a bridge for readers to understand each other in both universes of discourse.  The Human in its sociality and individuality is treated without sentimentality and with scholarship. This book is not an ideational blender. Free of bromides and clichés, Existential Psychology East-West respects the distinctness and beauty of stand-alone paradigms for, and cultural visions of, the Human. This book makes a significant contribution to its domain of interest.

Frank Dumont, EdD
Full Professor (retired), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec