Defenses Against Death Anxiety – DVD
This program illustrates the primary dimensions of each person’s existential dilemma, including the tendency to gradually accommodate to death anxiety by giving up one’s life prematurely. Self-destructive lifestyles, addictive patterns and attachments, vanity, and a sense of omnipotence also help people deaden themselves. In this filmed discussion, however, consideration is given to the positive aspect…
Life, Death, & Denial – DVD
Life, Death, and Denial was filmed during a series of seminars on the subject of death anxiety. The participants in the discussion describe their reactions as children when they first learned about death. In addition, they explore their responses to success and improvement in life circumstances—events that make them feel more vulnerable to the ultimate…
Creating Meaning: An Interview with Sheldon Solomon
Dr. Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist and the Ross Professor for Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. He is best known for developing Terror Management Theory, along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, which is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality inspired by the ideas of Earnest Becker. Dr. Solomon…
Terror Management Theory: An Interview with Dr. Jeff Greenberg
Dr. Jeff Greenberg is a social psychologist and professor at the University of Arizona, where he is the Social Psychology Program Head. Dr. Greenberg is known for coining the concept of Terror Management Theory, along with his colleagues, Sheldon Solomon and Tom Pyszczynski. He developed Terror Management Theory after realizing that two of his primary…
From the Polarized Mind to Awe: An Existential Humanistic Approach to Life: An Interview with Dr. Kirk Schneider
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. is a leading spokesperson for existential-humanistic psychology and the recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Dr. Schneider is an adjunct faculty member of the Existential-Humanistic Institute and the author/editor of 10 books, including The Polarized Mind and Awakening to Awe. In this DVD, Dr. Kirk Schneider offers his…
An Existential Approach to Dealing with Emotional Trauma: An Interview with Robert Stolorow
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and philosopher, well known for his works on intersubjectivity theory, post-Cartesian psychoanalysis, and emotional trauma. He is a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, and at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City. He is the author and co-author of several books, including World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (2011)…