Review of Everyday mysteries: Existential dimensions of psychotherapy.

Reviews the book, Everyday mysteries: Existential dimensions of psychotherapy by Emmy van Deurzen-Smith (1997). In this book, van Deurzen-Smith carefully crafts her own vision of the meaning and import of existential psychotherapy with wit, sophistication, and an enjoyable and lively style. However, van Deurzen-Smith's text more fully explicates the wide variety of philosophical and psychological sources that feed the existentialist tradition in psychotherapy. This book should serve admirably as an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy—both for those training in the field and those already established seeking more fruitful alternatives to more mainstream approaches. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)