Eros & Psyche – Volume 1 & 2

Human beings are sexual beings. While this is an existential reality, the way individuals relate to sexuality—their own and the sexuality of others—varies significantly. In our contemporary world, understanding what it means to be sexual beings is ever-evolving. Eros and Psyche is an in-depth encounter with sexuality through diverse existential perspectives. In this 2-volume series, many leaders in the existential field explore topics including how Heidegger and Foucault could reinvigorate your sex life, sexuality and the arts, finding God in the bedroom, and working with sexual attraction in psychotherapy. Eros and Psyche is essential reading for existential scholars, researchers, and therapists.

Volume 1 of Eros and Psyche focuses on philosophical and theoretical perspectives with chapters by Heidi Levitt, Zenobia Morrill, Brent Dean Robbins, Stanley Krippner, Sara K. Bridges, Digby Tantum, and more.

Volume 2 focuses on clinical and spiritual perspectives with chapters by Tom Pyszczynski, Peggy Kleinplatz, Susi Ferrarello, Nisha Gupta, Steve Simpson, Louis Hoffman, Melissa Racho, and others.

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These two important and timely volumes in Eros & Psyche: Existential Perspectives on Sexuality are part of a sea of change in views about sexuality within professional psychology. For decades, mainstream perspectives were implicitly—and sometimes explicitly— pathologizing of non-normative sexual orientations, desires, and behaviors. As these authors demonstrate, existential scholarship is uniquely positioned to shift the undercurrents of these views and to contribute to new understandings of the full spectrum of human sexuality. In doing so, the authors explore the meanings of human sexuality through all its nuances, ineffabilities, and complexities. At the forefront of a new era, this book will be of great value to practicing clinicians, scholars, and researchers alike.

Sarah Kamens, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Humanistic Psychology; Editor, Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessnes


Eros & Psyche: Existential Perspectives on Sexuality are two volumes that address erotic-sexual experiences through the lens of humanistic-existential psychological theory. These texts span philosophical and clinical issues on sexuality and a plurality of lived experiences of sexual attraction and pleasure, eroticism, gendering, as well as spirituality and religiosity regarding sex and desire—quite a feat, and such a joy, as the works are infused with exemplary scholarship to boot! What I like most of all is the recognition and affirmation of our diverse and embodied sexuality that these volumes inspire and, in doing so, provide an elucidation on a critical aspect of our lives that is often lost within jokes and euphemisms, ignorance, normative taboos, and, at times, covered over with guilt or shame. The works are perfect for undergraduate and graduate courses designed to address contemporary issues regarding the psychological life of human sensuality, attraction, sexuality, and love.

Robert McInerney, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Point Park University


Applying philosophical, spiritual, and clinical perspectives, Eros and Psyche explores the powerful, pervasive, collective, experiential, and existential reach of sexuality. The two volumes of Eros and Psyche are replete with evocative prompts for contextualizing and advancing the phenomenology of sexuality. The clinical insights offered are derived from serious consideration of the vulnerable subject matter and are generative sources for reflection on practice in the therapy room and in “the bedroom.” The influential thinking in Eros and Psyche will evoke rich discussion on the intersections of worldview, identity, spirituality, and sexuality for years to come—as such, Eros and Psyche is set to be a seminal text on the expansiveness of sexuality for existentialists.

Luis Vargas, PhD, Full Professor, Regis University

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