Therapeutics and the art of living are interconnected in various ways. The art of living relies on therapeutic experiences and practices in existential problem situations; conversely, psychotherapy should draw on the interpretative, orientational, and reflective knowledge of the art of living. The art of living without psychotherapy represents a practical reduction, while psychotherapy without the art of living represents a theoretical reduction. Gödde and Zirfas illuminate the relationship between therapeutics and the art of living from historical, philosophical, and contemporary perspectives: they reconstruct their structural interaction, examine implicit concepts of the art of living in the history of mental healing, and establish a connection between psychodynamic psychotherapies and philosophical art of living based on the therapeutic approaches of Freud, Ferenczi, Reik, Mentzos, and Yalom.