Living with Open Hands (4.0) (Resonant Voices)

  Coping with Existential Chaos How do we  hold on to meaning and purpose when the possibility of death is constantly in view? How can we believe in a just world when the world is patently unjust? How can we grasp the truth when the nature of truth itself is in doubt? Religious and philosophical thinkers have obsessed over  these  questions  for millennia; existentialists have made them a primary  concern  over the past two centuries. In his seminal work  Existential Psychotherapy  (1980), the American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom categorised our existential problems into four ultimate concerns: death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness. We want to live, but we know we will eventually die. We have the freedom to make choices, but there is no absolute truth to ground these choices. We want to feel connection, but we feel alone in our subjective experience. We want our lives to be meaningful, but there appears to be no inherent me...