Existential psychotherapy with couples facing breast cancer: A twenty yearreport

An existential approach to the treatment of couples facing breast cancer, a s well as qualitative themes describing the central clinical concerns of th e couples in treatment, is outlined and described. In addition, a descripti ve clinical study that reviews the changes made by 27 couples facing breast cancer treated by the first author between 1978 and 1998 is also outlined and described. A non-parametric test was used to determine that changes in scores on two clinical measures were significant, suggesting the usefulness of the presented existential clinical approach.