Overview and Aims

The Center for Existential Humanistic Psychology is mainly interested in the study and development of the Existential Humanistic approach as a way of psychotherapy and thinking in Malaysia. This includes thinking about life and death, about our meaning in life, and facing the givens in our lives. Since its formation in 2016, the center has produced conferences and workshops that gradually promotes awareness and conversations in this introspective way of psychotherapy and thinking.

Key Research Areas

1. Meaning and purpose in life
2. Grief and loss
3. Death anxiety and existential concerns 

Selected List of Publications and Research Output: Academic

Phoo, E. YM. (2020). Growing Hope. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 2020;60(5):583-592. doi:10.1177/0022167820937510
 
Conference Papers

Y.M. Phoo (2021). ‘I Dreamt of You, and You Were There’ Death and the Losses Beyond, Amidst the Pandemic in Malaysia. Keynote presentation at the Regional Conference on Existential-Humanistic Psychology 2021, 21-22 Aug 2021, Online

Books and Popular Press

Books

Author of Book Chapter – The Myth of Death: Of Arrival and Departure, and
Everything in Between
Hoffman, L., Yang, M., Mansilla, M., Dias, J., Moats, M., Claypool, T. (2019) Existential Psychology East-West (Volume 2). University Professor Press.

Contributor of Book Chapter – Further Development of Existential-Humanistic
Dialogues in Southeast Asia
Hoffman, L., Yang, M., Kaklauskas, F., Chan, A., Mansilla, M. (2019).  Existential Psychology East-West (Revised and Expanded Edition). University Professor Press.
 
Outreach: Events/Training

Evone Phoo – Chairperson
Regional Conference on Existential-Humanistic Psychology (ICEHP) 2021
21 – 22 Aug 2021 

Bashir Bashardoost & Evone Phoo – Trainer
“Why We Are Trapped in Our Work – On Philosophy and Psychology of Career Fulfilment” for MyPhilSoc’s Philoliving Event, by My Philosophy Society

Bashir Bashardoost & Evone Phoo – Trainer
‘Dealing with the Pandemic, Making Meaning of Loss’ for Opis 

Evone Phoo – Keynote Speaker
International Conference on Existential-Humanistic Psychology (ICEHP) 2018
21 – 22 Jul 2018, HELP University

Evone Phoo – Chairperson
Bashir Bashardoost – Co- Chairperson
International Conference on Existential-Humanistic Psychology (ICEHP) 2018
21 – 22 Jul 2018, HELP University

Evone Phoo – Keynote Speaker
International Think Big Summit
10 Jun 2017, Taylor’s University

Evone Phoo – Trainer
Existential Psychotherapy Workshop: An Introduction (full day)
6 May 2017, University Kebangsaan Malaysia

Bashir Bashardoost – Keynote Speaker
Malaysia’s 1st International Conference on Existential – Humanistic Psychology (ICEHP)
4 – 5 Jun 2016, HELP University

Evone Phoo – Chairperson
Malaysia’s 1st International Conference on Existential – Humanistic Psychology (ICEHP)
4 – 5 Jun 2016, HELP University
 
Media

Bashir Bashardoost – “Psyched about Psychoanalysis” with Malaysia Kini 
Bashir Bashardoost – “Professional practices in counselling therapy and encountered ethical issues in counselling cases” – for IMU 
Interview with BFM: Mourning, Modernity, and Moving On, 28 Jun 2018
Interview with BFM: Dealing with Death, 2 Mar 2018
 
Members

Ms. Evone Phoo (HELP University): evone.phoo@help.edu.my
Mr. Bashir Bashardoost (HELP University): bashir@help.edu.my