Books & Essays
SELECTED ESSAYS
Martin, Jack, & Liechty, Daniel, “Ernest Becker’s Dark Turn (1971-1973): A Critical Deepening.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 59:131-147, 2016.
Martin, Jack, “Ernest Becker and Stanley Milgram: Twentieth-century students of evil.” History of Psychology 19:3-21, 2016.
Martin, Jack, “Ernest Becker at Simon Fraser University (1969-1974).” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 54: 66-112, 2013.
Martin, Jack, “Revisiting Ernest Becker’s Psychology of Human Striving.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 53: 131-152, 2012.
Bartlett, Steven James, “The humanistic psychology of human evil: Ernest Becker and Arthur Koestler.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 48: 340-363.
Kramer, Robert, “The journals of Ernest Becker, 1964-1969.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 47: 430-473, 2007.
Bates, Harvey, “Letters from Ernest.” Christian Century 9, 217-227, March 1977.
Keen, Sam, “A Conversation with Ernest Becker.” Psychology Today 71-80, April 1974.
Becker, Ernest, “The spectrum of loneliness.” Humanitas 10: 237-246, 1974.
Becker, Ernest, “Toward the merger of animal and human studies.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 4: 235-254, 1974.
Becker, Ernest, “The psychotherapeutic meaning of East and West.” American Imago 18: 3-20, 1961.
BOOKS
THE WORM AT THE CORE: ON THE ROLE OF DEATH IN LIFE
By Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski
Random House, 2015
THE ERNEST BECKER READER
By Ernest Becker, edited by Daniel Liechty
Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2005
IN THE WAKE OF 9/11: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TERROR
By Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski
American Psychological Association, 2003
DEATH AND DENIAL: INTERDISCIPLINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGACY OF ERNEST BECKER
Edited by Daniel Liechty
Praeger, 2002
DECOMPOSING MODERNITY: ERNEST BECKER’S IMAGES OF HUMANITY AT THE END OF AN AGE
By Stephen W. Martin
Lanham MD, University Press of America, 1997
TRANSFERENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE: ERNEST BECKER’S CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOTHERAPY
By Daniel Liechty
New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1995
EDUCATING HEROES: THE IMPLICATIONS OF ERNEST BECKER’S DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION FOR PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
By Michael Alan Kagen
Durango, CO: Hollowbrook Publishing, 1994
THE CREATIVE MYTH AND THE COSMIC HERO: TEXT AND CONTEXT IN ERNEST BECKER’S THE DENIAL OF DEATH
By Ron Evans
New York, Peter Lang, 1992
THEOLOGY IN POSTLIBERAL PERSPECTIVE
By Daniel Liechty
Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990
MORTAL GODS: ERNEST BECKER AND FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY
By Sally A. Kenel
Lanham, MD:, University Press of America, 1988