The case for existential therapy in HIV-related psychotherapy

Few topics currently evoke such debate and dynamics as HIV and AIDS. It is a phenomenon that affects people at all levels of their existence, including in their psychotherapy experience. There is an ever growing field of HIV related psychotherapy. Currently this field contains work from a cognitive behavioural focus, a systemic one, work from a psychodynamic focus and from the Group Analytic approach. In this paper the case for existential psychotherapy will be made as an important approach with a great deal to offer the field of HIV-related psychotherapy.