Existential anxiety (EA) is an expression of being occupied with ultimate concerns such as
death, meaninglessness, and fundamental loneliness. Philosophers and psychologists have …

One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better
treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental …

Psychiatric and psychotherapeutic literature on anxiety seems to suggest that there are,
broadly speaking, two main types of anxiety. There is on the one hand the medical literature …

For more than 2500 years, physicians have distinguished the clinical conditions we call
affective or anxiety disorder from such everyday feelings as fear, restlessness, and …

Recently, the predominance of natural sciences seems to have cast doubt on the legitimacy
of the human sciences. Adopting a phenomenological and hermeneutical point of view, this …

Philosophical issues with respect to anxiety and its pathological variants arise at the border
between everyday and clinical understanding of anxiety, between clinical and scientific …

No question seems more intensely bound up with the search for the ultimate meaning and
significance of existence than the question of man. In the rush of daily life people are …

De vvp is een beweging voor eigentijds geloven en staat voor:• een persoonlijke manier van
geloven, geworteld in het christendom• een vrije en kritische omgang met bijbel en …

This is the second of three articles on the relationship between science, religion and
professional practice in psychology and psychiatry. The first article pointed out that the …

In cognitieve gedragstherapie (CGT) kunnen allerlei onderwerpen aan bod komen,
waaronder ook ingrijpende thema's, zoals de angst voor de dood. Behoort het ingaan op dit …