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When faced with a significant threat to life, people tend to reflect more intensely upon existential issues, such as the meaning and purpose of one's life. Brain tumor poses a serious threat to a person's life, functioning, and personhood. Although recognized as an important dimension of quality of life, existential well-being is not well understood and reflects an overlooked area of support fo...

Existential meaning in life is becoming an increasingly important measure of personal assessment. In search of a suitable instrument to measure existential meaning, the authors reviewed several measures. Eventually, they selected the Existence Scale (ES), doing so on theoretical grounds. The ES is a fairly new self-rating instrument that assesses the degree of personal search for existential me...

Dialogical Self Theory has contributed to the endeavors to map and grid self-identity work in transition from military to civilian life throughout an empirical and longitudinal research project which focuses on existential dimensions. This article is based on a case study from this project and centers upon Sergeant Jonas, who, upon his return from deployment in Afghanistan, struggled with his t...

For efficiency reasons, neighbourhoods in local search algorithms are often shrunk by only considering moves modifying variables that actually contribute to the overall penalty. These are known as conflicting variables. This is a well-known technique for speeding up search. State-of-the-art solutions to, e.g., the progressive party problem exploit this with great success. We propose a way of au...

From earliest times, sages have advised us to become comfortable with transience, more than that, to be at peace with our approaching death and to keep it in constant view. Whatever the benefits of such a perspective, they must surely be harvested in abundance by those working in Palliative Care! An ongoing personal cost0benefit analysis of our daily confrontation with death is for many a legac...

The aim of this paper is to introduce and explain a number of important existentialist philosophers and concepts that we believe can contribute to a critical approach to leadership theory. Emphasis is placed on understanding the nature of communication from an existentialist perspective and so Jaspers’ conceptualisation of existential communication is introduced along with important related con...

Synposis: The goal of this book is to show that key ideas about the nature of selves and responsibility for character in the existential tradition can be reconstructed and defended with the kind of hierarchical theory of personal autonomy proposed by Harry Frankfurt, Gerald Dworkin, and since developed by many others. But to solve the regress problem with hierarchical analyses of autonomy, whil...