Introducing Existential Health

Introducing Existential Health unfolds this evolving concept and places it in the context of common understandings of health. It presents existential health as a vital dimension in understanding human well-being, complementing the traditional biopsychosocial model.

Peter la Cour is from Denmark, works as a clinical health psychologist, and holds a time-limited position as professor adjunct at MF, Oslo Norway. His PhD was in psychology of religion, and he been a part of a Norwegian research network now called "Research center for existential health" for the past 15 years.

Preface. Part One. The Four-Dimensional Model. 1. History of health understandings and definitions. 2. The biopsychosocial model and the critique. 3. Background for a restructured model. 4. The four-dimensional model of health and illness. Part Two. What is Existential Health. 5. Explorations in existential health. 6. Mapping the terrain of existential health. 7. Empirical connections: Existential health in relation to other health dimensions. 8. Where the presence of existential health is already evident. 9. Some implications of existential health. 10. Epilogue.