For most of the relatively short history of scientific psychology the mere idea of an experimental existential psychology would have been considered oxymoronic—in fact, such a juxtaposition of experimental and existential psychology was probably never even considered at all. Although experimental psychology has flourished for well over 100 years, and existential ideas have made their way into the theories of clinically oriented theorists and therapists for most of the 20th century, these two approaches have traditionally been thought of as opposite ends of the very broad and typically finely demarcated field of psychology
