# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emmy-van-deurzen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:02:14.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emmy-van-deurzen"
name: "Emmy van Deurzen"
slug: "emmy-van-deurzen"
description: "Emmy van Deurzen is an existential therapist, psychologist, philosopher, and author who works in the United Kingdom and who has been instrumental in developing existential therapy worldwide. She developed a philosophical therapy based in existential-phenomenology, which was detailed in her many publications, and taught in the organizations she founded."
tagline: "Dutch existential therapist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EmmyvanDeurzen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.510190666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.emmyvandeurzen.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_van_Deurzen"
    title: "Emmy van Deurzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "إيمي ديورزين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_van_Deurzen"
    title: "Emmy van Deurzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_van_Deurzen"
    title: "Emmy van Deurzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_van_Deurzen"
    title: "Emmy van Deurzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_van_Deurzen"
    title: "Emmy van Deurzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5373627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump