Artists of existential anxiety, the Puritans believed that even those who wanted to be saved rarely were.

Because it's got the most existential anxiety that I know.

The book focuses on the darker side of humanity, dealing with issues such as existential anxiety, school bullying, paedophilia and murder.

Yalom explains that humans construct psychological defenses in order to avoid existential anxiety stemming from death.

This element of danger serves to heighten the existential anxiety of exploration.

But when the book was first published 50 years ago last month, it exploded into a culture riddled with existential anxiety and political fear.

The sudden obsession comes out of the existential anxiety of the baby-boomer generation about space and where we fit in.

Gifted individuals are also more likely to feel existential anxiety.

Their use of the figure allowed them each to express individual existential anxieties in their own way.

Without stimulus or focus, the individual is confronted with nothingness, the meaninglessness of existence, and experiences existential anxiety.