Articles
PSYCHOLOGY | EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY | EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY
Selected Articles, Notes, and Presentations
In the following sections, you will find a small selection of articles, notes, and presentations related in various ways to the existential approach. Many of these were created with a specific purpose, written or designed for a presentation within the training program or as articles and notes accompanying a conference. Others, however, emerged from blank pages, simply as existential reflections seeking a space to be expressed. “Gígnesthai” remains open to contributions from anyone who would like to add anything of existential interest, and we welcome your participation here.
Eugenia Georganta
Psy.D., ECP | PSYCHOLOGIST & EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Published in the book Contemporary Psychotherapies: From Theory to Practice, Asimakis Editions: Athens, 2001
Published in The British Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2007), The Integrative Project in Practice, pp. 6–12
From Ms. Georganta’s lecture at Hellenic American University, September 20, 2013
From Ms. Georganta’s presentation at the 5th ΕΕΨΕ Symposium, May 31, 2008
Spyros A. Georgiou
EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGIST & AUTHOR
From Mr. Georgiou’s lecture on Sunday, April 14, 2024, second day of the Two-Day Symposium “Existentialism in the Philosophy of Christos Malevitsis,” co-organized by Gignesthai and the Friends of Christos Malevitsis Association
Evi Dalla
Ph.D | PSYCHOLOGIST & EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s seminar notes for Gignesthai, 2006–2007
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s seminar notes for Gignesthai, 2006–2007
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
From Ms. Evi Dalla’s personal notes archive
Yasmeen Frantzola-Hamdy
MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR & EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST
We may not have control over our future or that of our world, but we do have control over what we do with our present moment. March 2022
Thanasis Maniatis
MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR & EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Article on existential uncertainty in light of the pandemic and climate change. December 2021
Article on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method and lived reality. December 2021
Article on ethical considerations in psychotherapy and phenomenology as a virtue of discipline. January 2022
Article inspired by Walden Two by B. F. Skinner and the use of free time today. January 2022
Article inspired by Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and the human condition. February 2022
Article inspired by the work of Medard Boss and existential openness in the world. April 2022
Article inspired by the work of Martin Heidegger. Towards a poetic relationship of humans with Being. May 2022
Article inspired by Anna Lembke’s The Dopamine Nation and digital addictions. May 2025
Christina Boufali-Bavella
PSYCHOLOGIST & EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST
The concept of here-and-now in the Existential-Humanistic approach
Alex Charisiadis
Ph.D., M.Sc. | PSYCHOLOGIST & EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST
The concept of Existential-Poetic psychotherapy as presented in two consecutive conferences in Karpathos, 2013–2014, in collaboration with the Swedish Society for Existential Psychology
Gignesthai
HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Article based on a joint presentation by Evi Dalla, Eugenia Georganta, Alexis Charisiadis, and Katerina Zymni in Shanghai, May 2012, on the occasion of the 2nd World Congress of Existential Psychology