From Existential Psychologists

 

Boss, M. (1963). Psychoanalysis and daseinsanalysis (K. Nagel, Trans.). Basic Books. (Original work published 1958 as Psychoanalyse und Daseinsanalytik)

Boss, M. (1979). Existential foundations of medicine and psychology (S. Conway & A. Cleaves, Trans.). Aronson.

Boss, M. (1983). The analysis of dreams (A. Crick & D. Crick, Trans.). Rider.

Frankl, V. E. (2006). Man’s search for meaning (I. Lasch, Trans.). Beacon Press. (Original work published 1946)

Yalom, I. D. (1980). Existential psychotherapy. Basic Books.

May, R. (1953). Man’s search for himself. W. W. Norton.

May, R. (1958). The discovery of being: Writings in existential psychology. W. W. Norton.

Schneider, K. J., & May, R. (1995). The psychology of existence: An integrative, clinical perspective. McGraw-Hill.

Laing, R. D. (1960). The divided self: An existential study in sanity and madness. Penguin Books.

Tillich, P. (1952). The courage to be. Yale University Press.

van Deurzen, E. (1997). Everyday mysteries: A handbook of existential psychotherapy. Routledge.

van Deurzen, E., Craig, E., & Laengle, A. (Eds.). (2019). The Wiley world handbook of existential therapy. Wiley-Blackwell.

I’ll add key APA-style entries for the figures you named, keeping them aligned with existential clinical and philosophical usage.

Schneider, K. J. (1995). The psychology of existence: An integrative, clinical perspective. McGraw-Hill.

Schneider, K. J. (2007). Existential-integrative psychotherapy: Guideposts to the core of practice. Routledge.

Schneider, K. J. (2009). Existential-humanistic therapy. American Psychological Association.

Hoffman, L., & Lac, V. (Eds.). (2025). The evidence-based foundations of existential–humanistic therapy. American Psychological Association.

Holzhey-Kunz, A. (1999). Daseinsanalyse [Daseinsanalysis]. Facultas.

Hoffman, L., Yang, M., Kaklauskas, F., & Granger, M. (Eds.). (2015). Existential psychology: A multidisciplinary approach to the human condition. University Professors Press.

Schneider, K. J., Krug, O. T., & Pierson, J. F. (Eds.). (2012). Existential–humanistic therapy: New directions in theory, practice, and research. APA Books.

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From Western Existential Philosophers

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Buber, M. (1996). I and thou (W. Kaufmann, Trans.). Touchstone. (Original work published 1923)

Buber, M. (1985). Martin Buber on psychology and psychotherapy: Essays, letters, and dialogues (M. Friedman, Ed.). Human Sciences Press.

Heidegger, M., & Boss, M. (2001). Zollikon seminars: Protocols—Conversations—Letters (F. Mayr & R. Askay, Trans.). Northwestern University Press.

Kierkegaard, S. (1985). Fear and trembling (A. Hannay, Trans.). Penguin Books. (Original work published 1843)

Kierkegaard, S. (1989). The sickness unto death (A. Hannay, Trans.). Penguin Books. (Original work published 1849)

Kierkegaard, S. (1992). Either/Or (A. Hannay, Trans.). Penguin Books. (Original work published 1843)

Nietzsche, F. (1974). The gay science (W. Kaufmann, Trans.). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1882)

Nietzsche, F. (1969). Thus spoke Zarathustra: A book for everyone and nobody (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans.). Penguin Books. (Original work published 1883–1891)

Nietzsche, F. (1966). Beyond good and evil: Prelude to a philosophy of the future (W. Kaufmann, Trans.). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1886)

Merleau-Ponty’s core texts most relevant to existential–phenomenological psychology and daseinsanalytic work are usually cited in APA like this.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of perception (C. Smith, Trans.). Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1945)

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). The visible and the invisible (A. Lingis, Trans.). Northwestern University Press. (Work published posthumously; original manuscripts 1959–1961)

Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). Harper & Row. (Original work published 1927)

Jaspers, K. (1963). General psychopathology (J. Hoenig & M. W. Hamilton, Trans.). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1913)

Jaspers, K. (1957). Reason and existenz (W. Earle, Trans.). Noonday Press. (Original lectures 1935–1937)

Jaspers, K. (1971). Philosophy (Vols. 1–3) (E. B. Ashton, Trans.). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1932)

Jaspers, K. (1969). The origin and goal of history (M. Bullock, Trans.). Yale University Press. (Original work published 1949)

Sartre, J.-P. (1956). Being and nothingness: An essay on phenomenological ontology (H. E. Barnes, Trans.). Philosophical Library. (Original work published 1943)

Sartre, J.-P. (2007). Existentialism is a humanism (C. Macomber, Trans.). Yale University Press. (Original lecture delivered 1945)

de Beauvoir, S. (1976). The ethics of ambiguity (B. Frechtman, Trans.). Citadel Press. (Original work published 1947)

de Beauvoir, S. (2011). The second sex (C. Borde & S. Malovany-Chevallier, Trans.). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1949)

Camus, A. (1955). The myth of Sisyphus and other essays (J. O’Brien, Trans.). Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published 1942)

Camus, A. (1956). The rebel: An essay on man in revolt (A. Bower, Trans.). Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published 1951)

Tillich, P. (1952). The courage to be. Yale University Press.

Buber, M. (1970). I and Thou (W. Kaufmann, Trans.). Charles Scribner’s Sons. (Original work published 1923)

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Other relevant philosophers:

Whitehead, A. N. (1933). Adventures of ideas. Macmillan.

Whitehead, A. N. (1929). Process and reality: An essay in cosmology. Macmillan.
James, W. (1978). The writings of William James: A comprehensive edition (J. J. McDermott, Ed.). University of Chicago Press.

Dewey, J. (1958). Experience and nature. Dover.

Peirce, C. S. (1958). Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Vols. V–VI. Pragmatism and pragmaticism; Scientific metaphysics (C. Hartshorne & P. Weiss, Eds.). Harvard University Press.
 

From Eastern Contemplative 'Existentialists'

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Roth, H. D. (1999). Original Tao: Inward training (Nei-yeh) and the foundations of Taoist mysticism. Columbia University Press.

Liu, A., Major, J. S., Queen, S. A., Meyer, A. S., & Roth, H. D. (Eds.). (2010). The Huainanzi. Columbia University Press.

Chan, W.-T. (1963). The way of Lao Tzu (Tao-tê ching). Bobbs-Merrill.

Watson, B. (1968). The complete works of Chuang Tzu. Columbia University Press.

Chan, W.-T. (1963). A source book in Chinese philosophy. Princeton University Press.
 

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