When attempting to convey something of the nature of existential psychotherapy one usually encounters some difficulties of a conceptual, semantic, philosophical and epistemological nature. However, perhaps the greatest difficulty arises from the fact that the existential psychotherapist is required to meet his patient on a different ground; that is, he must utilize a different mode of cognition and view his patient from a different perspective than is customary in the natural sciences or in much of everyday life. Generally speaking, under ordinary